Tzanidakis was combing through old telescope data from 2020 when he found an otherwise boring star acting very strangely. The star, named Gaia20ehk, was about 11,000 light-years from Earth near the ...

A comet swept through the solar system carrying a strange chemical recipe — one that has astronomers taking a closer look at what kinds of worlds might form around distant stars ...

Despite significant scientific advancement over the last decades, the universe still finds new ways to surprise us. Every ...

NASA's Roman Space Telescope now has solar panels after they were recently installed at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

New SETI research suggests space weather like solar winds could be interfering with alien radio signals, making them harder to detect.

The University of Arizona announced it will help build two of the three instruments needed for a new telescope.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals new clues about a mysterious cosmic explosion that defies expectations. Researchers are investigating an unusual event in deep space that has left scientists ...

I/ATLAS, the unusual interstellar comet that continues to fascinate astronomers, appears to be keeping an intoxicating cosmic ...

NASA's DART mission launched from California changed not just the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit, but the larger Didymos' path around the sun.

A rapidly brightening burst of light called AT 2024wpp, or "the Whippet", is baffling astronomers. One explanation is that it is the result of an exotic star falling into a black hole ...

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.