Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

Potential impactors are most likely to have low velocities and the highest likelihood of hitting Earth during the winter.

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...

For the first time, scientists have built a digital version of the Milky Way that follows the motion of individual stars, not ...

The current rate of star formation at the Galactic Center appears to be lower than in the rest of the Galaxy. A new study led ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted ...

A nested series of dusty spirals is captured swirling around a mighty triple star system containing two of the rarest stars ...

NASA 's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that an exceptionally rare star duo in the Milky Way has a third companion — ...

NASA released a trove of never-before-seen images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, unveiling new characteristics of the ...

F rom the very first images, JWST showed that it was going to be a revolutionary instrument, and yet it continues to surprise ...

Astronomers around the world have been fascinated by a particular comet for weeks. It is called 3i/ATLAS, and it is the third ...