The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born.

Since its discovery, some people have speculated that interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS could be alien technology. Harvard ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive hidden planet and a rare “failed star” by combining ultra-precise space data with some ...

The Terra Hunting Experiment will track the wobbles of dozens of stars nightly for years in the most focused hunt yet for an ...

The CRASH Clock is a new metric for measuring the risks of satellite congestion in low-Earth orbit. Its calculations are ...

A violent stellar disruption recorded in 2024 has given astronomers their most comprehensive evidence yet of a black hole ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on the Big Island’s Mauna Kea discovered a massive planet and a ...

Astronomers rarely see distant planets directly, instead tracking tiny stellar wobbles and fading light. How do these subtle ...

NASA is tracking a plane-sized asteroid known as 2025 XM as it hurtles toward Earth’s neighborhood at roughly 9,753 miles per ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory and Subaru Telescope on the Big Island’s Maunakea discovered a massive planet and a brown dwarf orbiting distant stars — two rare companions that deepen our ...

Now, an international team of researchers from Princeton University, the University of British Columbia, and the University ...

The greatest scientific contributions in human history are attributed to the British scientist Isaac Newton (1643– 1727), who ...