Using NASA's Swift spacecraft, an international team of astronomers have performed X-ray observations of a classical nova named Nova Scorpii 2023. Results of the observational campaign, published October 21 on the pre-print server arXiv,

The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - but that's not what makes it unusual. Scientists have recently discovered the formation of rings appearing around the object, which are changing and evolving as they watch the bizarre space rock.

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth

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

Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his collaborators, has conducted a systematic study of the filamentary structure within the G53 molecular cloud.

New observations of a strange object that wobbles around the space between Jupiter and Uranus reveal what looks like a system of rings forming and evolving, even as we watch.

After using their new technique , the astronomers measured the star’s color-reliant imagery shifts with five times the precision of previous observations. In doing so, they also realized something unexpected: the star’s disk is lopsided. According to Kim, it’s now up to another research department to figure out why this is the case.

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

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

Another interesting consequence of relativity is that as time stretches out at high speeds, distances diminish. It’s hard to wrap our heads around but it’s true. If our alien civilization experiences time dilation by a factor of 100, then everything in the cosmos would also appear (and actually be) 100 times closer.