Fresh images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show strange, tail-less behaviour and a perfectly symmetric coma, sparking ...

Coiled and snakelike, a set of four identical shells surrounds a violent stellar dance 8,000 light-years from Earth.

Dame Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, with the help of the world’s most powerful telescope, ventures through the Milky Way and into the universe beyond, on the hunt for alien worlds.

There is a way out of this trap, but it requires a fundamental shift in how NASA thinks about astrophysics procurement. It is time to stop buying hardware and start subscribing to outcomes. It is time ...

Watch how JW Telescope detects temperature on Trappist 1 b. Credit: Space.com | animation courtesy: ESO/L. Calçada / Space ...

Using the Webb telescope’s powerful Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (NIRISS) instrument, the team detected a ...

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

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

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 ...

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...

NASA is heading into the holidays with long-awaited good news about its next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman ...

Interstellar comet 3I/Atlas has moved within 300 million km of Earth as scientists continue tracking its rare journey.