Astronomers have discovered a new type of object that is a starless cloud that failed to form as a galaxy. Here's what to ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

After passing Earth, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly close to Jupiter and its moon Eupheme in March 2026, marking a key moment in its outbound journey ...

The theory, spearheaded by astronomer Michele Bannister and her investigative team at the University of Canterbury in New ...

Harvard's Avi Loeb reveals why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be an alien 'Trojan Horse' by design rather than a natural ...

Exoplanet TOI-561 b is the closest of four worlds orbiting a 10-billion-year-old G-type star roughly 280 light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Ralf Crawford illustration NASA’s James Webb ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have captured dramatic helium streams pouring off the super-puff exoplanet WASP-107b, revealing a world with an enormously inflated, weakly bound ...

Forget what you learned in school. The solar system isn't just a flat disc of planets it's a 3D bubble moving through space. This video explains why all planets orbit in the same flat plane and what ...

1 Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology, University of Buckingham, Buckingham, UK. 2 Centre for Astrobiology, University of Ruhuna, Matara, Sri Lanka. 3 National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, ...

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet. “I didn’t think this was possible,” says astronomer Sierra Grant ...