Using the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have captured the first detailed image of our third known cosmic interloper.

Saturn and Neptune rose with the Moon on Wednesday, 16 July 2025, creating a rare sky event believed to carry emotional and spiritual significance for certain zodiac signs.

The solar system’s smallest planet comes to a standstill in the evening sky before starting its retrograde motion for the next few weeks.

From the ancient Assyrians and Greeks, to the greatest minds of the Renaissance, and up to the billionaire space explorers of the 21st century, incredible amounts of time and effort have gone into ...

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a massive cloud of gas and dust located in a little-known region of our ...

It sold for more than the maximum estimated price of $4 million. On Wednesday (July 16), the largest Mars meteorite on Earth was auctioned off at Sotheby's in New York City for $4.3 million.

From a silhouetted space station to glowing comet tails and swirling stars, this year's ZWO Astronomy Photographer of the ...

Weighing in at 0.6 solar mass, HOPS-315 should someday grow to become a star much like our own sun; this makes it a promising stand-in for studying the first stages of our solar system’s history. For ...

Speaking at a local restaurant, University of Virginia astronomers share the wonders of the universe, hard science and some ...

The meteor shower is best viewed in the Northern Hemisphere in the predawn hours, according to NASA, though they are ...

At incredibly small scales, the universe operates according to the unfamiliar rules of quantum mechanics. And Planck’s ...