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

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

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 ...

While many of the original cherry trees have been replaced over time, the surrounding Susquehannock State Forest still features beautiful stands of black cherry, maple, and other hardwoods that create ...

October is a star-studded month with two meteor showers, winter constellations and a good chance to see a trio of green ...

The Milky Way galaxy is far from static. It spins, it wobbles, and now, thanks to the European Space Agency’s Gaia space ...