The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...

Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

The Golden State ranks No. 1 in the U.S. for asteroid visibility, thanks to its high number of observatories and dark sky ...

Galaxies, including the Milky Way, grow from thick, turbulent disks into layered structures. JWST’s images show this process ...

This fan-favorite double star at the head of Cygnus the swan shows off stunning contrasting colors through a telescope.

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

High in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile, something extraordinary is happening. Perched on the peak of Cerro Pachón at ...

A new observatory is coming on-line and, in its own way, is going to have an impact similar to what we are seeing with the James Webb Space Telescope.

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

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

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb revealed that the object is expected to approach Earth on December 17, speeding through the solar ...