Normally when a medium-size star dies, it blasts away the bulk of material in its system. The Hubble discovery was surprising ...

The team at the University of New Hampshire worked on a mission that will help answer questions about how life formed on ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

NASA spotted a new moon almost at the border of our solar system. Back in 1986, a theory came up that this cosmic body could ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, our corner of space was basically just a boring cloud of gas and dust floating […] ...

As with many big space stories, 3I/ATLAS is getting a fair share of attention as well as some more controversial theories ...

This giant protective bubble, created by the Sun’s solar wind, extends far beyond the orbit of Neptune and shields life in our solar system from harmful cosmic radiation and high-energy particles.

If the explosion of one of these black holes were observed, scientists “would also get a definitive record of every particle ...

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted with dust, forming the minerals that now make up about 80% of Bennu. Certain ...

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for ...

Earth gazed into the cosmos, wondering if she would ever get a new planetary neighbor. To her astonishment, one day... it happened. This video explores the breathtaking and chaotic consequences of a ...

Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object with interstellar origins that has defied ...