The Kepler space telescope is the source of more exoplanet discoveries than any other telescope, so why haven't we heard ...

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

The planet mentioned in the first episode of the new Apple TV series Pluribus really exists and it's been used in a different ...

A rare interstellar comet named 3I/ATLAS is hurtling through the solar system. It would give astronomers a rare glimpse of ...

Earth's atmosphere is an impediment to astronomical observations. Not only is cloudy weather a problem, but temperature ...

We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...

I/ATLAS can kill most of human life obliterate a continent and is it visible from Earth? The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may pose no direct threat to Earth, yet its size, speed, unusual behaviour and ...

Should we prepare for alien invasion? The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is travelling through our solar system on a hyperbolic path. Scientists observe its odd behaviour, debate its origin and monitor ...

Perihelion for 3I/ATLAS takes place on Oct. 30, when the interstellar interloper will be 1.35 astronomical units (125 million ...

Scientists imaged the heart of the OJ 287 galaxy, uncovering a curved plasma jet around what appears to be two merging supermassive black holes. The structure reveals unimaginable energy levels and ...

Finnish scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic voids come in pairs, per a study published October 9 in the ...

As telescopes peer into the universe, they sometimes see quirks of nature that magnify faraway objects. These eight galaxies recently imaged by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appear stretched, ...