NASA NASA has announced an exciting discovery hurtling through our solar system: an interstellar object. It’s a comet, but ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

A double rainbow was spotted after Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall bringing heavy rain and strong winds to the east ...

Its closest approach to the Sun will occur around October 30, just inside Mars’ orbit, at 1.4 AU, before it continues its ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Overall, the citizen scientists identified 10,001 eclipsing binary pairs. Of those, 7,936 were previously unknown.

One fascinating discovery was the detection of vast clouds of gas extending far beyond the main star-forming regions. These ...

But an international team of astronomers have detected the unmistakable signature of a gas giant planet orbiting the ...

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...