A rare lunar occultation, fading crescent moon, and an interstellar visitor make for a memorable week of stargazing in ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

As the Moon reaches New, advanced observers can try photographing 3I/ATLAS while everyone can enjoy nebulae and more in the ...

For the first time, astronomers have successfully observed the earliest stages of planet formation around a star outside our ...

3I/ATLAS is only the third object which has been confirmed to have originated outside our solar system after 1I/Oumuamua ...

NASA’s Chandra and Hubble telescopes have spotted a young Jupiter-like exoplanet, TOI 1227 b, rapidly losing its atmosphere due to intense X-ray radiation.

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

The night sky is home to many celestial features named after creatures from Earth’s oceans. Among the stars, you’ll find ...

Ammonite was discovered using the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, with follow-up confirmation from the Canada-France-Hawaii ...

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up ...