A mysterious interstellar visitor sparks fears of alien contact as Baba Vanga's prophecy predicts a colossal spacecraft in 2026.

NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has captured a series of images of 3I/ATLAS between January 15 and 22, 2026, as it moved away from the Sun. It created a 28-hour-long video in which ...

Right now, somewhere above our heads, missions are being planned that could redefine humanity's place in space. The decisions ...

The venerable Hubble observatory is going strong despite its decades in space and the advent of next-generation successors ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the most distant, early galaxy in the known universe. The new contender, MoM-z14, is visible just 280 million years after the Big Bang.

Using data collected by NASA's Parker Solar Probe during its closest approach to the sun, a University of Arizona-led ...

Astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets around single stars, but few around binary stars—even though both types of stars are equally common. Physicists can now explain the dearth.

One of the most famous and recognizable asterisms of the night sky is the Belt of Orion, a tight belt of three bright stars (Alnitak, Alnilam, Mintaka) in the constellation of Orion, which has given ...

A 13-atom molecule containing sulfur has been discovered in interstellar space for the first time, providing insight into the origins of the chemistry of life.