But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...

Within one of the "toe beans" of the feline footprint exists a subset of "mini toe bean-reminiscent" structures composed of gas, dust and young stars, according to NASA. The Webb telescope's NIRCam ...

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

The Trump administration's plan to gut the Office of Space Commerce and cancel the government's first civilian-run space ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

On Earth, water is so intertwined with life that our search for life on other worlds is essentially a search for water. When ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

An unknown object slammed into Saturn, possibly marking the first time a collision with the planet has been witnessed in real ...

The comet is described as a spinning mass of ice, rock and dust, hurtling through space on a path that thankfully poses no threat to Earth. At its closest point, 3 Eye Atlas will remain approximately ...