Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

NASA has discovered 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object, now passing through our solar system from the ...

Astronomers have captured the first-ever visual evidence of awhite dwarf star exploding twice in a remarkable supernova event ...

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 ...

One of those investigations involved a distinctive deep dive into studying the interior of the moon.

Ibrahim Al Jarwan, Chairman of the Emirates Astronomy Society and a member of the Arab Union for Space and Astronomy Sciences ...

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

This year's buck moon will reach its peak illumination at 4:37 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, July 10, 2025. While ...

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 ...

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.

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...