“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

This stunning image dubbed 'Cosmic Owl' captures a remarkable moment in deep space, billions of light years away.

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

Across continents and cultures, people have gathered under the stars for centuries, weaving cosmic wonders into their ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

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

The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the ...

The ALMA radio telescope array in the Atacama Desert temporarily halted operations after a rare snowfall blanketed the base ...

Sculptor—officially labeled NGC 253—is considered a starburst galaxy, one heavy with stellar action. It's located 11 million light-years away in the Southern Hemisphere's constellation Sculptor, and ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.