Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

In a cosmic breakthrough, scientists using the James Webb and ALMA telescopes have caught a rare glimpse of a planetary ...

Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...

For the first time, international researchers have pinpointed the moment when planets began to form around a star beyond the ...

New observations from England’s e-MERLIN interferometer telescope array display cosmic pebbles that will one day grow into ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission, which launched in March 2025, is poised to transform our understanding of the universe. By creating ...

At the summit of Cerro Pachón, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started its work.

Astronomers have recently unveiled an extraordinary image of the Sculptor Galaxy, also known as Caldwell 65, a stunning galactic masterpiece that has been revealed in an unprecedented array of colors.

Accompanying last week's 1.5TB trove of public Webb data is a new, interactive map of the telescope's slice of the universe, which it's spent hundreds of hours examining with its state-of-the-art ...