The discovery of quasi-moon PN7 has caused a stir on social media. A University of Oregon astronomy professor explains. what ...

Is the universe really expanding faster and faster? A team led by Lee Young-uk, a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Space Science and the Center for Galaxy Evolution at Yonsei University, ...

A mysterious object spotted hurtling toward Earth has sparked a wave of global panic and wild alien invasion theories online.

For decades, astronomers have been awed by Saturn’s ring beauty. But a tiny, icy wanderer drifting between Saturn and Uranus ...

No one can say with scientific confidence why we exist or what happens when we die. In fact, scientists have a tenuous grasp ...

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a ...

Exoplanet hunters Christopher Watson and Annelies Mortier explain the long search for a 'twin Earth' capable of sustaining ...

In a peer-reviewed analysis, scientists quantify amino acids before and after our “ last universal common ancestor .” The ...

For centuries, humans have sought to study the stars and celestial bodies, whether through observations made by naked eye or ...

ESA’s Mars orbiters captured images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars, revealing its bright, hazy ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has changed the game for planet hunters. Recent readings found what look like the first clues of atmospheres on a few small, rocky exoplanets. There’s no proof of life, ...