However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.

A galaxy that has remained unchanged for 7 billion years — a rarity in the universe — has been observed by astronomers, ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Astronomers have discovered a new interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, which is believed to be the oldest comet ever observed. The comet is estimated to be around 7 billion years old.

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

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...