Mysterious Bright Flashes in the Night Sky Baffle Astronomers Celestial transients shine furiously and briefly. Astronomers ...

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to ...

For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth this week, safely passing at 167m miles. The UN & NASA are ...

In most comets, the tail points away from the Sun, but this strange 'anti-tail' of 3I/ATLAS has left scientists puzzled.

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In 2004, a bright point of light in the debris disk surrounding Fomalhaut was thought to be an exoplanet. But the spot ...

Astronomers directly imaged two separate collisions between rocky objects in the Fomalhaut star system. Scientists previously ...

Hubble discovered a point of light in a neighboring star system, presumably a debris cloud from a celestial body collision.

Then, on November 25, teams at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, joined the inner and outer portions ...

NASA has now confirmed that 3I/ATLAS is not just another visitor from deep space but the largest interstellar comet ever ...

David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space ...