Astronomers have revealed new details about the makeup and age of a visiting comet that was born around a distant star. They ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe an oddball gas giant exoplanet orbiting a dead star.

A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of ...

A star could be about to become visible in the night sky in a once-every-80-years explosion. Here’s how to easily find T ...

In July 2025, astronomers spotted something remarkable passing through our Solar System, an object that had not come from ...

(International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Shadow the Scientist; Image Processing: J. Miller & M. Rodriguez ...

Where does the solar system end and interstellar space begin? That's a question scientists have been working to answer using ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two enormous, blazing stars swung close to the solar system. They did not touch the sun, but they came close enough to leave a permanent mark on the thin mist of gas that ...

Researchers have discovered a planet which, by all intents and purposes, should not be there. The world, coined WD 1856 b, is slightly larger than Jupiter and circles a dead star only about the size ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...