Observations from NASA’s Juno spacecraft reveal that Jupiter’s strong magnetic field and the unique properties of its plasma ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Astronomers have traced a mysterious blast of X-rays to a star that, like a cosmic action hero, just refused to die.

Earth objects, astronomers recently discovered a comet visiting from interstellar space. This is only the third interstellar ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

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

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

"This tangible evidence of a double detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers ...

A close-in exoplanet is triggering stellar flares and self-destructing. This is the first direct evidence of planet-star ...

Long theorized but never observed, the first known “planet with a death wish” is described by Ilin and her colleagues in a ...