Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...

On Episode 178 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Terry Virts, a former shuttle and ISS astronaut.

LIGO observatory near Richland confirmed Einstein’s theory of relativity, it also has proven one of Hawking’s theorems.

TRAPPIST-1e shows no signs of its first atmosphere, but hints of a secondary one remain. Liquid water could still be possible ...

The James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera captured an "array of stars that make up the dwarf galaxy Wolf–Lundmark ...

Since astronomers found the first planets outside our solar system in 1992 and the first planet around a sunlike star in 1995 ...

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Dark matter is an elusive type of matter that does not emit, reflect or absorb light, yet is predicted to account for most of ...

Hubble has captured a dense, burned-out star in the act of consuming a Pluto-like object. Happening some 260 light years from Earth, the new observation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal ...

An interstellar comet passing through the solar system contains a surprising mix of chemicals, findings that could help ...

Science is irrefutable. It is a field in which one must go with surgical precision and to achieve a minimum advance is already a synonym of success. Depending on the field in which ...

Scientists have found thousands of planets outside our solar system, called exoplanets, throughout the galaxy. This artist’s ...