Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

The first interstellar object spotted in our Solar System was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017 by the ...

The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...

Astronomers spotted an object speeding at 133,200 miles per hour (about 214,364 kilometres per hour), which is too fast to be ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

NASA has since confirmed the object is an interstellar comet called 3I/ATLAS – and it is only the third interstellar object ...

In the predawn hours of July 1, 2025, a faint streak of light caught the attention of astronomers peering through data from a ...

Artist Franck Gohier is part of the artistic fabric of Darwin, but, when he arrived from France with his parents 50 years ago ...

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...

HIP 67522 b, a Jupiter-sized planet, orbits its star in just 7 days. Its closeness disturbs the star’s magnetic field, triggering stellar flares that scorch the planet’s atmosphere ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced a new image of the Bullet Cluster, which is a titanic collision between ...