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

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After running a new kind of computer simulation, scientists believe the comet originated from a rarely seen corner of the ...

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

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

On July 11, 2022, the James Webb Space Telescope finished its commissioning and commenced science operations. In the three ...

The rings of Saturn glide so tranquilly when watched through a telescope, that it is easy to forget the planet sits in a ...

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 ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

Earth objects, astronomers recently discovered a comet visiting from interstellar space. This is only the third interstellar ...