When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

In 2017, astronomers made an unprecedented discovery: the first interstellar object ever confirmed to visit our solar ...

Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

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

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

Hawaii’s significant contribution to science, particularly those discoveries made through telescope installations on two ...

There was also Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), which became visible to the naked eye during late summer and early autumn ...

The VERVE mission seeks to investigate the presence of bacterial life floating in the heavy cloud cover on Venus up close.

Astronomers uncover how massive stars form by tracking interstellar ammonia. Using the U.S. National Science Foundation ...