An ominous-looking nebula named NGC 246 lurks in the constellation Cetus about 1,600 light-years away from Earth. It is ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just made its closest pass of the sun, setting it on an ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope combine to reveal an otherworldly view of ...

The outbursts were found to be a two-speed, two-temperature blast. This finding drastically changes our view of conditions on ...

Dive into NASA's ATLAS system as interstellar 3I/ATLAS nears Sun on 29 Oct 2025—no Earth hit, but astrometry campaign probes ...

Astronomers have used simultaneous ground-based and space-based observations to measure the temperature and velocity of gas ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope confirmed the existence of a companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, ...

NASA and space agencies around the world have put the Earth's defenses on alert as the object known as 3I/ATLAS continues to ...

The wavelengths of radio light are so large that you can't capture a high-resolution image with a single dish. To capture an ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...