Spiral galaxies can be further divided into two groups: normal spirals and barred spirals. In barred spirals, a bar of stars ...

The highly inclined barred spiral M108 in Ursa Major is sometimes called the Surfboard Galaxy. It's not to be missed.

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

A newly discovered object, dubbed A11pl3Z, appears to be moving too fast and straight to have originated in the solar system.

Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual, hyperbolic trajectory. If ...

An object thought to have come from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to ...