The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

Researchers have called for the public's help after an image appears to show an unidentified object slamming into Saturn.

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

"This discovery heralds a broader understanding of the diversity in massive stars' deaths and a need for deeper investigations into the whole landscape of stellar evolution." ...

Astronomers propose dark dwarfs—objects powered by dark matter annihilation—may exist near the galactic center, offering key clues about WIMPs.

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

According to the story: “Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system. The harmless object is currently near Jupiter hundreds of millions of ...

New observations from England’s e-MERLIN interferometer telescope array display cosmic pebbles that will one day grow into ...

When white dwarfs—the hot remnants of stars like our sun—are orbited closely by another star, they sometimes steal mass away ...

Stars often die with a final burst of beauty. For the first time, astronomers have captured visual proof that a star can ...