The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

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SPHERE’s detailed images of dusty rings around young stars offer a rare glimpse into the hidden machinery of planet formation ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...

Hubble Space Telescope observations of white dwarf star G238-44 has shown that it is "consuming both rocky-metallic and icy ...

Critics argue the satellites, billed as a way to harness solar energy at night, could hamper sky observations and may pose a ...

SF franchises like Star Wars, Star Trek, and even Battlestar Galactica or The Expanse receive a lot of credit for their ship ...

New research shows how the star's powerful outbursts could help scientists assess which worlds might support life.

Scientists studying the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua have proposed that it may be a fragment from a Pluto-like planet beyond ...

The image shows a good example of the phenomenon Some of the best views of Earth come from beyond our home planet, as ...