A comet from another star system is swinging by Mars as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar visitor ...

A young rogue planet about 620 light-years away from Earth has experienced a record-breaking "growth spurt," hoovering up ...

Astronomers have observed a rogue planet undergoing a dramatic “growth spurt”. The planet, called Cha 1107-7626, was observed ...

Astronomers recently released a new image of the binary star system Eta Carinae's full spectrum, taken from deep in Chile's ...

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record ...

Astronomers report the discovery of two new highly scattered pulsars as part of the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) ...

Astronomers have identified an enormous "growth spurt" in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our solar system, ...

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...

Observing the object over several months, they found it flared up dramatically. It's gobbling up 6 billion tonnes of mass per ...

If you’ve ever wanted to see a chunk of the early solar system with your own eyes, now’s your chance. The comet C/2025 A6, ...

Sunlight also plays a role. As asteroids absorb heat from the sun and re-emit it, they experience a tiny push, known as the ...

Astronomers have discovered that asteroid 1998 KY26, the target of Japan’s Hayabusa2 extended mission, is far smaller and faster-spinning than previously thought. Astronomers have conducted a new ...