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

KiDS J0842+0059, with a mass around 100 billion times that of the Sun, has remained frozen in time for centuries.

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own atmosphere.

Stargazers in the U.S. can see Venus rising around 3 a.m. local time, with the Pleiades star cluster visible as a smudge of ...

A unique gas giant has been confirmed through global teamwork, offering insights into planetary formation and future ...

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

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

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope has settled into low-Earth orbit, providing a wellspring of publicly available space data.

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...