Up for a challenge? If skies are clear, you may be able to complete a rare feat of visual athletics this coming weekend, and ...

Early in our Solar System’s history, bits of icy debris were scattered and then gradually coaxed into a spiral alignment in the Oort Cloud.

In December 2024, astronomers in Chile spotted a new asteroid streaking through the sky, which they named 2024 YR4. What’s significant about this 100m-wide space rock is that it has a small chance of ...

A new study by Rice University researchers Sho Shibata and Andre Izidoro presents a compelling new model for the formation of ...

"Such a high-speed ejection requires a tight binary star to pass within 1 astronomical unit of an IMBH," Huang said. "The black hole's tidal forces would rip the binary apart, capturing one star ...

This butterfly shaped nebula is the perfect target for the James Webb Space Telescope to learn more about star formation.

Array would leverage robotic and crewed lunar missions and China-led International Lunar Research Station set to take shape ...

The planets are all too hot for life as we know it, but astronomers haven’t given up searching for more planets in Barnard's ...

New research from Germany has investigated for the first time the idea of building a photovoltaic Dyson sphere, a theoretical ...