NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...

A new investigation into old Kepler data has revealed that a planetary system once thought to house zero planets actually has ...

NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

The Milky Way's core will be visible this month and through August. Here's what Tennessee stargazers should know.

Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...

Using gravitational microlensing, scientists have discovered a rare, large planet at the edge of the Milky Way. The planet is ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have peered deep into one of the Milky Way's most radiation-intense ...

The existence of the planet, named AT2021uey b, took years to verify. Astronomers have located a rare exoplanet on the edge of the Milky Way. The exoplanet, a gas giant named AT2021uey b, orbits a ...

In addition, most microlensing efforts are recorded at the Galactic Center -- the densest part of the Milky Way, Edita Stonkutė, an associate professor of astronomy at Vilnius University, said in a ...