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 though to hit Saturn ever year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it seems ...

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

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

Using NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new ...

The decade-long wait for U.K. astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.

"We have discovered a galaxy that has been 'perfectly preserved' for billions of years, a true archaeological find that tells ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

Astronomers capture first image of a white dwarf exploding twice in space Rare double-detonation seen in supernova remnant ...