High on a ridge 5,250 meters above sea level in southwest China’s Xizang Autonomous Region, a new eye onto the infant ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive, hidden exoplanet nestled in the dusty disc of a young star—MP Mus—by combining ...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet—between three and ten times the size of Jupiter—hiding in the swirling disk of ...

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS was the third visitor from outside our system, and its origins were being studied using an interstellar visitor model.

Scientists at the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced Sunday that their AliCPT-1 telescope has captured its first crisp images of the moon and ...

Large telescopes are custom-built and rare. There is no standard practice or model. Every time a large telescope is built, its designers must re-think the challenges, check every application, and ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

A mysterious object, first observed hurtling across the solar system on July 1, has now been identified as "very likely to be ...

A mystery interstellar object spotted last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen, according to scientists, BBC reports. Named 3I/Atlas, it may be three billion years older than our ...

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 ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.