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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

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

The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

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