It currently sits around 420 million miles (or 670 million kilometres) from Earth. Astronomers have since confirmed its ...

It may be a 20km wide comet or a cosmic snowball, but it does not pose a threat to Earth. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope searches the universe to understand how planets, stars, and galaxies form. Recently, it captured ...

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

Mars shines in the evening, and is joined briefly by Mercury. Jupiter joins Venus as the month goes on. And all month, look ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

A possible new "jellyfish" galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope could deepen our understanding of galaxy ...

Astronomers have finally caught a dying star in space going out with a bang — and then another bang. The new photographic evidence, captured using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large ...

A new observatory in Chile has produced a stunningly detailed image of a nebula resembling cotton candy, using the largest ...