I/ATLAS stands apart from other interstellar objects because of its size as well as pace, and will soon disappear from ...

The striking thing about this is that repeating the procedure on the star turned up no evidence of carbon-based chemicals, ...

Scientists got a never-before-seen look at an area around a large exoplanet 625 light-years away where moons could potentially form.

NASA’s IMAP mission will explore the heliosphere and study how it shields Earth from cosmic radiation and space weather.

For decades, astronomers believed Andromeda and the Milky Way were destined to merge in about 4 billion years. But new ...

The nearby satellite galaxy M32 can also be seen as a bright ball on the upper edge of Andromeda's disk while the milky splash of light below is in fact the elliptical galaxy Messier 110, which plays ...

In this excerpt from his new book, John Gertz argues it’s time to ditch SETI’s old dogmas and rethink how we prepare for ...

Astronomers have discovered a massive bridge of neutral hydrogen gas that connects two dwarf galaxies. Scientists at the University of Western Australia node of the International Centre (ICRAR) have ...

The white dwarf is located in our Milky Way galaxy about 255 light-years from Earth, relatively close in cosmic terms, and has a mass about 57% that of the sun ...

IMAP carries ten advanced science instruments and will travel for about 108 days to reach its designated position at Lagrange ...

The chemical make-up of crystals that formed from magma hint at an increase in the number of meteorites battering Earth’s ...

The spacecraft will map the boundaries of the heliosphere, study how Earth’s outer atmosphere reacts to solar activity and ...