We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to ...

Interstellar comets offer the tantalizing opportunity for us to touch something truly otherworldly,” says the European Space ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

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

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last ...

When astronomers first discovered exoplanets, they found massive ones orbiting large stars. The technology to detect smaller planets around low-mass, dim red dwarfs took time to develop. By the ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to peer into the early universe and uncover the ...

TWO new stars have suddenly appeared in the night sky, caused by some of the most powerful explosions in the universe. Two ...