Hubble observations reveal a giant, turbulent planet-forming disk that may reshape theories of how planetary systems develop.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big ...

The infrared space telescope also detected water vapor, carbon dioxide and organic compounds streaming from the departing ...

Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen ...

ʻOumuamua was the first confirmed object from another star system to pass through our solar system. Its strange shape, unusual acceleration, and lack of a visible tail left scientists divided. Since ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS's first reported sighting was on July 1, and it's going to be the closest it's ever been to Earth on Friday. Along the way, it reached several milestones leading up to what ...

Officials at Kitt Peak National Observatory have unveiled what they’re calling the first public science center ever built inside a working telescope, but that’s not its only claim to fame. It also ...

The titled question asks whether reported alignments between interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and gamma-ray bursts are statistically expected. According to Harvard Professor Avi Loeb, the answer is yes, ...

Far beyond Neptune, at the outer rim of our Solar System, astronomers have spotted what resembles a hidden “structure” or “band” of small worlds. The Kuiper Belt is a vast ring of icy bodies beyond ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...