The day before my thesis examination, my friend and radio astronomer Joe Callingham showed me an image we'd been awaiting for ...

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

Can one witness a new world being born, sculpting its stellar cradle as it emerges out of cosmic dust? In the spinning protoplanetary disc around HD 135344B, 440 light-years away from Earth, ...

The world is safe, the child is alive, and the Fantastic Four stands together again. In the final scene before the credits, ...

A mysterious new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, was discovered in July. It turns out that wasn't the first time our ...

S4, a $900-million cosmology experiment, would answer one of the greatest questions in physics. Instead it’s become another cautionary tale of pursuing big science amid shrinking budgets ...

Amid simmering anxiety about the future of federally funded science, the U.S. government has quietly withdrawn support for cosmology’s next premier project, an experiment that would have given us the ...

A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system could be something far stranger than a comet, possibly even alien ...

The findings suggest that sufficiently small particles introduced into the laboratory vortex should behave similarly to dust ...

An ‘interstellar visitor’ spotted drifting into our solar system weeks ago is either a massive dirty snowball or an alien ...

The structure, named the Midpoint cloud, is an example of a Giant Molecular Cloud (GMC). It was discovered by the team using ...

Earth's famous Hubble Telescope has just revealed the first images of a mysterious interstellar object racing through our ...