Using NASA's Swift spacecraft, an international team of astronomers have performed X-ray observations of a classical nova ...

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

Researchers armed with a new "photonic lantern" device have discovered an unexpectedly asymmetrical disk of gas swirling ...

Almost 50 years after the WOW! signal stunned astronomers in Ohio, 3I/Atlas reappears in the same sky region, raising ...

Meng Dezhao, a Ph.D. student from the Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, together with his ...

Although it's smaller than a planet, Chiron could be a natural laboratory for learning about how ring systems form, change, ...

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 ...

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