New observations of WD 1856 b, a gas giant closely orbiting a white dwarf, offer a preview of what could happen to Jupiter ...

For years, a tiny space rock has been quietly following Earth on its journey around the Sun, hiding in plain sight as one of ...

The shiny objects—each roughly twice the size of a basketball—began to appear on July 3. Authorities initially worried that ...

Astronomers using computer simulations have investigated whether a class of star clusters nicknamed "cosmic wallflowers" ...

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A star called TOI-2155 lies around 1,350 light-years (839 trillion miles) from Earth. It is a little bigger, heavier and ...

A new image of an asteroid, referred to as a “quasi-moon,” has been released ...

Can planets survive after their stars die? This is what a recent study published in Nature hopes to address as a team of ...

A Jupiter-size exoplanet orbiting a dead star baffled astronomers. But the planet named WD 1856 b could preview the fate of ...

Egypt’s King Mentuhotep II reunited his country’s upper and lower regions at the turn of the 20th century—B.C.E. Were the ...

In this Skywatch 16, Jeremy Lewan takes a closer look at a meteor that recently exploded and produced a sonic boom over New ...

A Japanese spacecraft flew by an asteroid and snapped a picture. It turned out to be a “contact binary”: two space rocks that ...