Earth" that is located about 154 light-years away and is nearly twice as big and four times as massive as our planet.

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

Dennis Mammana Stargazers 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 comprehend sizes and ...

The first interstellar object spotted in our Solar System was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017 by the ...

In the predawn hours of July 1, 2025, a faint streak of light caught the attention of astronomers peering through data from a ...

Astronomers spotted an object speeding at 133,200 miles per hour (about 214,364 kilometres per hour), which is too fast to be ...

The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...

NASA has since confirmed the object is an interstellar comet called 3I/ATLAS – and it is only the third interstellar object ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien life in the glow of a distant planet. Other scientists were quick to ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...

A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that ...