How big would our Solar System be if the Sun was an eleven-inch football/soccer ball? Alex and Jonathan set out to find the ...

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

A deep, long probe helped experts discover this.

WASP-121b, an already unusual planet, might have a remote origin that explains some of its peculiar properties—from iron rain ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

U-M astronomy is helping understand this fast, old and large comet that was born outside our galactic neighborhood This diagram shows the trajectory ...

NASA spotted something moving in one of the moons of Jupiter. Some natural satellites have similar structures to the Earth, and this one is very intriguing.

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it could be more than 3 billion years older than the solar system.

What methods can astronomers use to identify exoplanets orbiting within a young exoplanetary system’s disc of dust and gas ...

The alien world orbits a dim, reddish ball of gas called a red dwarf star in the northern constellation Lyra. Scientists ...