While the Orionids aren’t the most prolific meteor shower of the year, they are incredibly fast movers. They enter the ...

Astronomer Gianluca Masi and his Virtual Telescope Project will host a special livestream on Oct. 24 beginning at 1:30 p.m.

Scientists continue to analyze data collected by both spacecraft to better understand the comet’s properties and behaviour as ...

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is this year’s brightest comet visible from Earth—an icy relic from the solar system’s origins that ...

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon is getting brighter and whether you have a telescope, binoculars or just your eyes, here’s how you can catch a glimpse.

Ever since a mysterious interstellar object, since dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted screaming into our solar system this year, famed Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been raising the possibility ...

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto -like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque ...

A tiny object far beyond Pluto, newly discovered by the Subaru Telescope, could reshape our understanding of the early Solar System. Named 2023 KQ14, this rare “sednoid” follows an unusual orbit that ...

The James Webb Telescope measured a potential moon-forming disk encircling an exoplanet, NASA recently announced, inviting researchers to observe and study moon formation as it happens, while ...

The newborn planetary system appears to be emerging 1,300 light-years away around a baby star known as HOPS-315. Planet-forming materials were first identified using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.