However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

After running a new kind of computer simulation, scientists believe the comet originated from a rarely seen corner of the ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Using NuSTAR and XMM-Newton satellites, astronomers from New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi have observed a pulsar known as ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...