We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a significant nongravitational acceleration, which led to a wide variety of ...

EXCLUSIVE: Scientists say the discovery of a Jupiter-like planet promises to further understanding of planetary systems.

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James Webb’s mid-infrared vision has likely captured a frigid, Saturn-mass planet shaping the dusty rings around the nearby ...

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

Sedna will make its closest approach to the Sun in 2076, giving us a rare opportunity to visit the planetoid before it drifts ...

Astronomers in Australia picked up a strange radio signal in June 2024 — one near our planet and so powerful that, for a ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare planet hiding at the edge of our galaxy using a space-time phenomenon that was first predicted by Albert Einstein. The exoplanet, AT2021uey b, is a Jupiter-sized gas ...

In a stellar nursery 460 light-years away, astronomers sharpened old ALMA data and spotted crisp rings and spirals swirling ...

A rare Jupiter-sized planet AT2021uey b was found 3,200 light-years away using microlensing, a method based on Einstein's ...

July stargazing is certainly a late show, but it is worth losing some sleep over because it is now prime time for summer ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...