A science museum in Georgia is studying a piece of a meteor that blazed over the Southeast last week and was later recovered ...

The world was stunned by recently released images taken of deep space at the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile. What’s even ...

Ursa Major and its Big Dipper asterism are loaded with terrific galaxies. Two strange galaxies that inhabit this area may be ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Algol is not a single star but a multiple-star system, primarily consisting of two main components, Algol A and Algol B, which orbit a common center of mass. A third, fainter star, Algol C, also ...

The newly observed binary system features a cataclysmic variable star, designated GOTO0650, which is in a rarely seen late stage of its evolution. This was also the first major discovery for the ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...