One of the great ironies of the year is the fact that in the heat of the summer in the northern hemisphere, the Earth is much ...

The Milky Way’s farthest spiral arms have long been sketched more from motion than measurement. Now three violent explosions ...

A giant planet circling a dead star should not be there. That was the puzzle hanging over WD 1856 b ever since astronomers ...

Of all the strange worlds in our Milky Way galaxy, some of the most mysterious are those hanging around white dwarf stars.

A comet screaming in from another star system carried alien ice ratios never seen before. What scientists found inside its spinning nucleus is reshaping how we picture worlds beyond our sun.

In a fascinating solar phenomenon, India’s maiden space-based solar observatory, Aditya-L1 has observed iron flourescence on Sun during massive solar flares.

Three days from now, on July 6, Earth will be at its farthest distance from the sun, the aphelion point of its elliptical ...

A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of ...

NASA made a good bet when it built the Swift Space Telescope. Launched in 2004, Swift has spent more than a generation ...

A comet born around another star crossed into our solar system, accelerated to roughly 153,000 miles per hour at its closest ...

For the first time, NASA's TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission has identified a planet orbiting a distant star thanks to its warping of space-time. Unlike the star-hugging transiting ...