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

After running a new kind of computer simulation, scientists believe the comet originated from a rarely seen corner of the ...

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

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

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

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

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

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

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

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

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

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