The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...

Stars uncontaminated by heavier elements are thought to have formed very early in the universe, but a galaxy much later in ...

The theory revolves around "photo erosion," a process during which massive and violent stars, O-type or B-type stellar objects, blast other stars with high-energy radiation to strip away their ...

Comet 31/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object, may be 7 billion years old and could reveal secrets about the early Milky Way and ...

The peculiar objects appear in the same region of the sky but are 13,000 light-years apart and unrelated to each other. They were first spotted in 2021 lurking in data taken between 2006 and 2011 ...

British astronomers may have solved the mystery of an "interstellar object" hurtling towards our planet. Scientists believe the mysterious interstellar visitor may be the oldest comet ever observed.

According to the team, given these lifetimes of stellar objects, we may be able to detect the fossil remnants of a previous universe within our own. Previous estimates put the universe's end at ...

Supernovas, kilonovas, gamma-ray bursts... oh my! The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will uncover 100,000 of these ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

But neither object is in a star-forming region; and further, the two sources aren’t physically associated, despite appearing close together on the sky. (They are located at separate distances of ...

The gorgeous Eagle Nebula is one of the most iconic objects in the cosmos, known affectionately as the Pillars of Creation. One of the most famous images ever taken by the Hubble Space Telescope ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted six likely rogue worlds -- objects with planet-like masses but untethered from any star's gravity -- including the lightest ever identified with a ...