First its rotation slowed between March and May 2017, taking 46 hours to complete a spin where it had once taken only 20 hours. This occurred as the comet neared its closest point to the sun, roughly ...

Several planets will line up shortly after sunset, on February 28, during a planetary alignment. Six planets will be visible ...

One of the longest stellar dimming events ever observed was likely caused by the gigantic saucer-like rings of either an ...

NASA's Magellan orbiter launched from Florida in 1989 helped scientists discover a vast underground lava tube on Venus in a major first.

At the center of the Egg Nebula is its yolk: a deteriorating sun-like star.

The stunning image captures a star's dying moments wrapped in dust, light, and a cosmic conundrum still waiting to be solved.

In the latest scientific discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope shocks space enthusiasts by revealing an unusual object that ...

A distant star system with four super-sized gas giants has revealed a surprise. Thanks to JWST’s powerful vision, astronomers detected sulfur in their atmospheres — a chemical clue that they formed ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

NASA and the ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured an incredible image of the Egg Nebula, providing astronomers with rare details.

As next-generation telescopes map this outer frontier, astronomers are bracing for discoveries that could reveal hidden planets, strange structures, and clues to the solar system’s chaotic youth.

Idaho has a secret that feels like it was teleported from another planet, and it’s hiding in plain sight just outside a tiny town called Bruneau. Imagine mountains of sand rising from the desert floor ...