Oumuamua, the mysterious interstellar object that baffled scientists in 2017, appears to be back in our solar system — and ...

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

A teenager avoiding tedious tasks writes an AI algorithm that discovers millions of space objects, earns him a quarter of a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope spotted possible signatures for life in an exoplanet's atmosphere. Still, researchers caution ...

As a career-long teacher of astronomy and space science, this week’s successful Blue Origin flight to send a group of five female “astronauts” into “space” makes me feel somewhat curmudgeonly.

The discovery was made on a massive exoplanet known as K2-18b that for years has captivated scientists searching for life ...

Onboard the International Space Station (ISS), the Extant Life Volumetric Imaging System, dubbed ELVIS, is not about ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope confirmed that the planet K2-18b has traces of dimethyl sulfide, a potential ...

Hollywood's sci-fi universe has provided us with some pretty awesome interstellar spacecraft over the years. But what's the ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

The Lyrid meteor shower is one of the oldest meteor showers recorded. One of the first viewings dates back to 687 BC according to NASA.