What was originally thought to be a planet orbiting the Fomalhaut star was probably just the fallout of a wild collision.
A four-planet system reveals remarkable insights about how planets form and how they change during their lifetime.
In the fastest observation made, the LSST Camera data identified an asteroid the size of eight football fields that rotated ...
New telescope instruments now reveal distant galaxies in detail, reshaping how astronomers map dark matter, star formation, ...
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 ...
Astronomers announced the discovery of a starless cloud of hydrogen gas, a pristine relic of the cosmos that is almost as old as time itself.
China conducted a total of 93 space launches in 2025, setting a new national record for orbital launches in a single year.
The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...
Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...
Scientists tracked active solar region NOAA 13664 for 94 days, showing how persistent magnetic complexity drives flares and ...
NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has captured ultraviolet images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing hidden chemical ...
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 ...