Astronomers just caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet as it zoomed past Mars. Images of the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, were captured by two of the the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters -- ...

Using JWST and ALMA data, astronomers have spotted a superlong and narrow 'galactic contrail,' possibly produced by a black ...

See composite views of the Cartwheel Galaxy captured by the James Webb Space Telescope. The galaxy is 500 million light years away and has also been imaged by Hubble Space Telescope, comparison shown ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a cornerstone of modern astronomy, has been providing breathtaking images and invaluable data for ...

Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in ...

After marking the 30th anniversary of the discovery of the first exoplanet around a sun-like star, we now look forward to ...

Hubble captured a breathtaking view of NGC 6000, a spiral galaxy where blue newborn stars shine beside golden, aging ones.

I/ATLAS, only the third object from beyond our solar system ever spotted from Earth, was viewed from Mars by an orbiting European spacecraft.

For millions of years, a fragment of ice and dust drifted between the stars—like a sealed bottle cast into the cosmic ocean.

A puzzling streak captured by NASAs Perseverance rover on the Martian surface has sparked curiosity among astronomers and ...

Whether an asteroid is spinning neatly on its axis or tumbling chaotically, and how fast it is doing so, has been shown to be dependent on how ...

The comet is such an unusal visitor that Nasa has set up a tracker for people to keep an eye on what its doing. It passed ...