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.

Following decades of limited seabed exploration, NASA has developed new and astonishing technology for Seatrec's underwater ...

Indian astronomers have discovered 'Alaknanda,' a remarkably well-formed spiral galaxy, just 1.5 billion years after the Big ...

The Geminids peak Dec. 13, producing up to 120 meteors per hour visible from 8 p.m. until sunrise. Plus, a recap of ...

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

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.

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

Grant and Cugno used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to pick out the infrared glow from the disk of gas and dust ...

The JWST has spotted Alaknanda, a massive, well-formed grand-design spiral galaxy that existed just 1.5 billion years after ...

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

Astronomers are reporting new findings about 3I/ATLAS, the rare interstellar comet now moving through the outer solar system, as NASA and research institutions expand monitoring of the object's ...

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