The James Webb Space Telescope has observed the iconic Pillars of Creation and the view is spectacular! Travel 6,500 ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third ever seen, returns with unique composition; experts eye 19 December 2025 as a date that could reshape comet science.

Still, science being science, we needed proof—and we got it in 1992, when two astronomers found two planets orbiting a pulsar ...

Since the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered this past July — just the third confirmed object to arrive from another star — ...

3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered by the Russian astronomer Gennady Borisov in August ...

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is being built to map the universe on a scale no previous observatory has attempted, ...

Searching for exomoons—moons that orbit around another planet—was one of the most exciting capabilities expected of the James ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

According to a new study, Earth’s atmosphere might have been more important for the origin of life story than we gave it ...