Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic ...

"Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System!" the agency's ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

A stronomers at the Planetary Virtual Observatory and Laboratory (PVOL) are appealing for help, after an image taken by ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.