The exoplanet, discovered by Northwestern University astronomers, orbits two suns exactly like Luke Skywalker's fictional ...

Strongest evidence yet for an atmosphere on a rocky planet outside our solar system - a thick blanket of gases above an ocean of magma.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals astonishingly rich organic chemistry, confirming that life's building blocks are ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now visible in the UK night sky! The third confirmed alien visitor, whose chemical fingerprint is 'older than our Sun', makes its unrepeatable, 221,000 km/h flyby. Get ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover that a distant "hot Jupiter" planet has two ...

The tenth day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features an enormous cloud of gas and dust, illuminated by a ...

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN)'s backdrop is dominated by the Eagle Nebula — a vast cosmic structure of dust and hydrogen-rich gas ...

“No aliens. No threat to life here on Earth.” The plain assurance of NASA’s Sean Duffy lacks the poetry of glowing comet tails but cuts through the noise rather succinctly. To scientists, the ...

They also discovered a brown dwarf orbiting hundreds of light years away from Earth.

Conventional telescopes are limited in detecting low-surface-brightness (LSB) structures, which are essential for studying ...

XRISM's Xtend telescope records the first X-ray glow from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing how alien material interacts ...