Astronomers have captured the glowing "wings" of a vast nebula shaped like a bat, unfurling in deep space about 10,000 ...

This is only the third interstellar comet scientists have observed. Its extreme brightening, unusual composition, and intense ...

California-based startup Reflect Orbital aims to build a swarm of 4,000 giant mirrors in low Earth orbit to "sell sunlight" ...

The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is ...

Astronomers observe Type II supernova SN 2024bch behaving differently, with energy from Bowen fluorescence rather than ejecta interaction, challenging models of stellar death and high-energy neutrino ...

Despite it’s comparative size to our star, it’s still the least massive object ever detected using gravitational lensing.

Astronomers just caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet as it zoomed past Mars. Images of the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, were captured by two of the the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters -- ...

Another interesting consequence of relativity is that as time stretches out at high speeds, distances diminish. It’s hard to ...

Researchers are discussing 2025 PN7, a small celestial body that's following a similar orbital path to our planet's without ...

The first double-burst supernova ever observed, SNR 0509, is a historic discovery that reveals how white dwarfs explode in ...

More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...