Until now, astronomers have detected fully formed, massive, newborn planets or observed younger protoplanetary discs, but ...

Today in the history of astronomy, a Prussian photographer captures totality.

Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as an interstellar ...

Images from two different telescopes give astronomers a glimpse at the formation of a "new" planetary system around a star ...

A lone body, making one passage around the Sun for every ten by Neptune, is rewriting the rules of planetary dynamics in the ...

There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...

On July 25, 2025, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) captured a rare solar eclipse from its vantage point in space. This ...

Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...

Astronomers think small space rocks from beyond our solar system routinely strike Earth—but proving it isn’t easy ...

A red supergiant star is surrounded by a sphere of dust and gas so large there is no known explanation for what produced it ...

In 2015, astronomer Tabetha Boyajian and colleagues announced the discovery of unusual light fluctuations coming from a star about 1,500 light-years away. It came to be known as "Tabby's star" or ...

Every once in a while, space gives us something totally unexpected. Well this time, the solar system is surprising us with a ...