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

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

On July 1, scientists discovered a mysterious object hurtling through our solar system.  Nicknamed 3I/ATLAS, astronomers say ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

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

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

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...