A Harvard University professor has said that 3I/ATLAS experienced a sudden "nongravitational" acceleration while passing ...

This is only the third interstellar comet scientists have observed. Its extreme brightening, unusual composition, and intense ...

If an alien species were to visit Earth, Pope Leo's newly appointed astronomer -- Father Richard D'Souza -- would welcome the ...

A class of University of Texas astronomy students has discovered that nearby dwarf galaxy Segue-1 seems to host a ...

Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth—and still hasn’t left.

Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

Astronomers from the International Centre of Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have released an incredible image of the Milky Way shining in low-frequency radio light, revealing a spectacular realm ...

The discovery is only one of a handful of enigmatic objects called ORCs that have ever been found. And their origins are ...

A colossal cloud of gas and dust resembling a flying bat has been photographed soaring across the southern sky by the Very ...

Astronomers observe Type II supernova SN 2024bch behaving differently, with energy from Bowen fluorescence rather than ejecta interaction, challenging models of stellar death and high-energy neutrino ...

The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now ...