An international team of researchers observed four highly intriguing 'dust objects' using the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility in Chile.

Organized by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the event also honored popular Mexican astrophysicist and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected unexpected high-energy ultraviolet radiation around five ...

A fresh analysis of data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has offered an unexpected look at how our galaxy ...

A new image of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reveals an 'impossible' anti-tail, prompting fresh scientific scrutiny weeks ...

Subtle variations in the star’s brightness suggest it once collided and merged with another star, an explosive event that ...

Joseph Martinez was found guilty of the 1999 murder of 13-year-old Minerliz "Minnie" Soriano on Friday, Nov. 14 ...

Stars usually form in clusters, which can also form in pairs or groups. Binary clusters (BCs) are defined as pairs of open ...

Public fascination with the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS intensified this week after a surge of online posts claimed the visitor was aligned with newly discovered comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) in what some ...

In 1925, Payne-Gaposchkin became the first person to earn a doctoral degree (PhD) in astronomy from Harvard University. Her ...

Two millenniums before blastoff, astronomy belonged as much to the realms of art, philosophy and religion as it did to what ...

The importance of darkness, solar eclipses, Mars, the Webb Telescope and just how dangerous space is are the subjects for ...