The transforming exoplanet that was observed by the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope at the U.S. National Science Foundation Kitt Peak National Observatory has a strangely elongated orbit. Credit: Images and ...

This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dense and dazzling array of blazing stars that form globular cluster ESO ...

An international team of astronomers has uncovered new evidence to explain how pulsing remnants of exploded stars interact ...

The CRIRES+ instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has been used to measure the ...

What lies within a toe bean? According to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, mini toe beans composed of gas, dust, and stars. Since kicking off full science operations in July 2022, the James Webb Spa ...

Large telescopes are custom-built and rare. There is no standard practice or model. Every time a large telescope is built, its designers must re-think the challenges, check every application, and ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

New observations show a star that blew up in two separate bursts, confirming a long-suspected cosmic phenomenon called a ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...