Astronomers have found evidence of a "bizarre interstellar object" that could be an alien spacecraft. The major space breakthrough, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was spotted travelling from another star to our sun ...

In 2017, astronomers made an unprecedented discovery: the first interstellar object ever confirmed to visit our solar system—1I/2017 U1, also known as Oumuamua. This mysterious object, unlike anything ...

Humans might not know of any intelligent beings beyond Earth, but if they exist, they might already know about us. New ...

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Formed around a distant star elsewhere in the Milky Way, it is an interstellar wanderer, not a merely interplanetary one.

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...

Dark matter makes up 85% of the universe, but researchers, including Vera Rubin herself, historically have had a hard time ...