When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

Taejas Venkataraman explores what the discovery of white dwarf pollution can teach us about scientific investigation ...

These images mark an early milestone in the mission, confirming that OSIRIS-APEX is healthy and on course for its 2029 ...

D-Orbit’s ION vehicles were launched Nov. 28 from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The ION satellite carrier ...

3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered by the Russian astronomer Gennady Borisov in August ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

New orbital data reveals interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be on a guided path to Jupiter's Hill radius. Discover why this precise trajectory suggests the visitor could be releasing alien technology ...

A technique called interferometry can greatly magnify tiny objects on the sky, and is powerful enough to reveal the surfaces ...

Within the diameter of Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun, the coincidence between the perijove distance and the Hill radius has a statistical likelihood smaller than 0.00004. In case the ...

Our Sun, that steady burning ball of gas that has faithfully illuminated Earth for billions of years, is slowly but ...

Astronomers have uncovered clues to a red giant’s chaotic past by detecting subtle stellar vibrations that hint at a long-ago collision and an unexpectedly rapid spin. Astronomers at the (IfA) have pi ...

SpaceX is set to launch 140 commercial payloads to Sun-synchronous orbit on its sixth rideshare mission of the year, ...