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

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, falling apart on cosmic scales.

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a planet beyond the solar system that orbits its twin parent stars closer than any ever seen ...

Biggest vs smallest - how do we measure up in the grand scheme of the universe? Explore the fascinating scales of existence, from quantum particles to the observable universe’s edge. A journey into ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has released detailed plans for a major survey that will reveal our home galaxy ...

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

A new mathematical equation describes the distribution of different fragment sizes when an object breaks. Remarkably, the distribution is the same for everything from bubbles to spaghetti. When you ...

All year long, these moments captivated the public, demonstrated dangerous trends, and pushed research and innovation forward ...

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

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