A renowned physicist believes he's cracked the mystery of where a giant unidentified object hurtling through our solar system ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

When most people think of our Solar System, they think of the 8 planets officially recognized by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). But what if I told you there are at least 40 planets, and ...

The experimental director Jem Cohen’s latest is an uncategorizable film about astronomers and humanity and love and the stars ...

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

This particular isotope burns away quickly inside stars due to their intense heat. But in cooler objects like brown dwarfs, ...

The world of science, in its constant search for evidence to explain some concepts of the planet we live on, has always strived to reach results and conclusions that could change t ...

This month, Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System in Río Hurtado, Chile detected a third interstellar visitor. At ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...

According to the story: “Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star ...

The Earth, the solar system, and the entire Milky Way are stranded near the centre of a giant, mysterious hole where the ...