The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile recently captured rare footage of the visitor known as 3I/ATLAS — only the ...

A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar ...

Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull ...

On July 1, 2025, astronomers caught sight of a mysterious object racing through the solar system. This object, now named ...

A team of astronomers recently discovered the traveling space object, just the third of its kind to pass through our solar ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the thing, point telescopes at it, argue about it. It's going to be fun." ...

The National Air and Space Museum has opened five more of its renovated galleries, including two showcasing space artifacts.

Mysterious red dots may be a peculiar cosmic hybrid between a star and a black hole. By all rights, they shouldn’t exist. When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) first opened its eyes to the ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...

Einstein's theory posits that mass distorts space. This distortion can bend light from distant objects. Astronomers use this effect to find dark objects in space.