Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...