Comet 31/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object, may be 7 billion years old and could reveal secrets about the early Milky Way and planetesimal formation processes.

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Astronomers have captured the earliest moments of rocky planet formation around a young sun-like star, offering a ...

A bitter public dispute between Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum and the New York lawyer representing a son of drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán has raised speculation ...

From the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs to one that nearly hit Moscow, space rocks have shaped our history. Could we ...

The researchers used the James Webb Space Telescope to probe the chemical make-up of material around the star, and found the ...

"The existence of any vesicles on Titan would demonstrate an increase in order and complexity, which are conditions necessary ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Summer 2015 was marked by a unique astronomical event, which occurs approximately once in ... the history of astronomy. The ...

The discovery of a potentially habitable exoplanet by the James Webb Space Telescope sparks fresh curiosity across science ...

NASA confirms the existence of TOI‑1846 b, a nearby hot super-Earth that could contain water, initially observed by NASA's ...

WASP-121b is unlike anything in our Solar System. This giant planet orbits its star so closely that it completes a full orbit ...