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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted the earliest ever signs of planets being born around a star.

As we study the universe more, we have found ourselves to be part of much larger structures, formed by gravitational interactions. We orbit the Sun, the Sun is part of the Milky Way, and the Milky Way ...

Answer 17: A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in space. A meteor is the streak of light produced when a meteoroid ...

New findings about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveal its surprising size, possible thick disk origin, and what makes it ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one day resemble our own.

Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins ...

Astronomers first identified these minerals using the now-three-year-old James Webb Space Telescope. To see where exactly the ...

Hidden in the ‘Infinity Galaxy,’ a black hole floats in space where none should exist, upending old ideas about black hole birth.

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to ...