An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

In 2017, ‘Oumuamua stunned scientists as the interstellar object entered and then exited the solar system, something ...

NASA has discovered 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object, now passing through our solar system from the ...

Scientists have discovered HIP 67522 b, a planet so close to its star that its orbit disturbs the star’s magnetic field, ...

At the aphelion, the distance from the Earth’s center to the Sun’s center is going to be 152,087,738 kilometers (94,502,939 ...

In a groundbreaking study recently published on the arXiv preprint server, researchers have proposed two innovative ...

The Rubin Observatory takes advantage of these conditions by aiming the largest digital camera on Earth at the night sky.

At left is an enlarged infrared view of galaxy cluster Abell 2744 with three young, star-forming galaxies highlighted by green diamonds. The center column shows close-ups of each galaxy, along with ...

This galaxy glows meekly at magnitude 14.4 and spans a mere 3.6’ by 0.8’, so a dark sky and a telescope of 10- or 12-inches is normally required to spot it.

Most galaxies we see today are quiet, well-structured, and orderly. But not all play by those rules. Some are wild, chaotic, and packed with stars that are forming at a furious pace. These rare, ...