In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from outside the Solar System, might have been spewing gases for months ...

Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...

A new comet is in the sky, and it was only discovered on Friday, September 12, 2025. Officially named C/2025 R2 (SWAN), it was detected by the Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) instrument on the SOHO ...

Experiments on Earth indicate some common species of bacteria and fungi could survive for several days on the moon's surface, ...

Though the rings appear solid from afar, they’re actually a dynamic, rotating system of icy debris. One theory suggests they ...

Travel the universe from your seat with our picks from the annual ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition.

The bright meteor was witnessed by some Scots as it streaked across the sky in the early hours of Thursday July 3. Now, experts are asking for the public to find the fragments.

As NASA described it, the stellar jet located on the outskirts of the Milky Way resembles Darth Maul’s double-bladed lightsaber from “Star Wars.” ...

Yet none of this new global reality means that things are now fixed. Indeed, the new world order is in a state of disruptive ...