Researchers named it 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "scout". 'Oumuamua was later confirmed to be the first object from another star ...

How can astronomers pierce through the interstellar fog of the Milky Way—not to study distant objects, but to understand the ...

There is a large diversity in the chemical composition of astronomical objects such as planets, comets, circumstellar ...

Astronomers have confirmed that interstellar objects—cosmic bodies originating from other stars—are passing through our solar ...

The interstellar plasma is turbulent and scatters pulsar radio waves slightly away from a direct, straight line path. The ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...

It's one of the first things any of us learn about astronomy – stars twinkle while planets don't. However, other point-like objects in the radio sky ...

The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...