What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...

In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has discovered an enormous, fast-spinning asteroid that sets a new record.

China conducted a total of 93 space launches in 2025, setting a new national record for orbital launches in a single year.

NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has captured ultraviolet images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing hidden chemical ...

The star system V1298 Tau reveals that many planets begin as large, low-density worlds that slowly shrink and shed their ...

In the fastest observation made, the LSST Camera data identified an asteroid the size of eight football fields that rotated ...

Scientists at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have identified the fastest-ever spinning asteroid larger than half a kilometer ...

A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...

The universe never ceases to amaze, and the recent findings regarding Comet 3I/ATLAS are no exception. While some space enthusiasts hoped that this interstellar visitor might be a ...

Research led by Daniel Ivanov, a physics and astronomy graduate student in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences at Pitt, uncovered a contender for one of the earliest observed spiral ...