It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

In a zesty new discovery, scientists have unearthed a strange lemon-shaped exoplanet. It is unlike one we have seen before, ...

It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to ...

On January 1, 1801, a Sicilian astronomer named Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the dwarf planet Ceres orbiting the sun between ...

James Webb has spotted the most distant supernova ever seen, exploding just 730 million years after the Big Bang, offering ...

Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. Luke 2:10 ...

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...

Saturn has just pulled far ahead in the solar system’s moon race, with a fresh wave of detections pushing its tally to 274 ...

Fourth anniversaries aren’t often causes for celebration. But in the case of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which ...

3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever observed traveling through the solar system, following 1I/'Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. Each encounter has sparked fascination—and ...

We share some incredible images this week, featuring a range of spacecraft. NASA's MRO finds a new crater on Mars, ESA's ...