Need a refresher about 3I/ATLAS? Here's everything to know about the interstellar object, including when the latest observations will be made.

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tonnes of gas and dust a second -- an unprecedented rate that blurs the line between planets and stars, astronomers said. Astronomers ...

Astronomers have observed a massive growth rate in a free-floating rogue planet that’s gobbling up gas and dust at a record rate of 6.6 billion tons per second.

Astronomers have spotted auroras on a planet-sized object called SIMP 0136, which is currently roaming around our Milky Way galaxy without a star. The auroral activity seems to be warming the objects ...

A young rogue planet about 620 light-years away from Earth has experienced a record-breaking "growth spurt," hoovering up some six billion tons of gas and dust each second over a couple of months. A ...

"This is the strongest accretion episode ever recorded for a planetary-mass object." Scientists have identified a lone planet with a ferocious appetite. Located in the Chamaeleon constellation roughly ...

Posted: October 1, 2025 | Last updated: October 1, 2025 The Phantom Galaxy (M74) has been imaged in infrared and optical light using the James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope. The ...

Microsoft has announced progress on a new chip cooling approach that could help address one of the biggest bottlenecks in scaling AI infrastructure: heat. The company’s researchers have successfully ...

Scientists have long been aware of the massive elliptical galaxy, M87. The galaxy was first observed in the late 18th century by Charles Messier, who cataloged objects in the sky specifically to avoid ...

The source of the Milky Way's strange wobble has finally been revealed, thanks to new data from the ESA's Gaia Space Telescope.

JWST observations suggest the universe's first stars, formed from hydrogen and helium after the Big Bang, may have differed from familiar fusion stars. (Nanowerk News) The first stars in the universe ...

Why Sagittarius B2 produces so many stars in comparison to the rest of the galactic center has remained an enduring mystery ...