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

In the century or so since Edwin Hubble discovered that the Milky Way is just one of countless galaxies in the universe, our ...

A novel way to find aliens might be through gravitational wave detection, Loeb says. He is interested in laser interferometry ...

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

"We're trying to encounter an astronomical object that streaks through our solar system just once and we don’t want to miss ...

A group of comets with unexplained movements presents a quandary D avide Farnocchia hunts down and tracks asteroids, and ...

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

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

Webb's penetrating infrared gaze has now revealed the true identity of the glow as a face-on, distant spiral galaxy. It has a ...

The detection of a large interstellar object in 2017 named 'Oumuamua was a landmark discovery. Figuring out where the wayward traveler came from, though, is another challenge entirely, especially ...

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Astronomers found two strange, dense, icy objects by chance in 2021 during a survey of our galaxy’s disk by Japan’s AKARI satellite. A closer look showed that they are made of interstellar ice ...