Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in the history of astronomy. The New ...

A black hole is growing at one of the fastest rates ever recorded, according to a team of astronomers. This discovery from ...

Several well-known meteorite discoveries are still a mystery. Avi Loeb’s interpretation of some meteorite debris possibly being of alien origin is controversial, because peer‑reviewed analyses point ...

On December 25, 2021, the largest and most powerful space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, was launched into space ...

Astronomers predict it will pass relatively close to four planets (but not Earth) and the Sun, then continue its cosmic ...

For the past few days, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has been displaying a blue-green gas coma measuring 2.5 arcminutes ...

Earth has a new friend — and it's been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal ...

A new NASA mission will capture images of Earth's invisible "halo," the faint light given off by our planet's outermost atmospheric layer, the exosphere, as it morphs and changes in response to the ...

Now, finding a young planet like this is a fairly difficult task, as it requires a long and patient hunt for young disk ...

Earth has a number of mini-moons and quasi-moons. Mini-moons are objects that orbit our planet. But they make for fickle fans: They tend to swing around Earth for only a matter of months. One example ...