How can a comet from another star system have a tail pointing toward the Sun? This counter-intuitive phenomenon, observed for ...

When you look up at the night sky, planets seem calm and fixed. But a new study shows that nearby planetary systems can be violent and chaotic. Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have ...

Using Georgia State’s CHARA Array, an international team of scientists has uncovered unexpected complexity in how stars explode. Astronomers have obtained images of two stellar explosions, called ...

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Here is a look at just a few of the biggest developments in astronomy that The Debrief has been tracking in 2025.

Understanding how the Milky Way formed means looking far beyond the bright spiral you see in the night sky. A new study led ...

Astronomers analyzing data from an array of telescopes — including the W. M. Keck Observatory atop Mauna Kea on the Big ...

By studying tiny distortions in the shapes of distant galaxies, scientists mapped dark matter and dark energy across one of the largest sky surveys ever assembled. Their results back the standard ...

Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

Caption: Shandin Pete, a Salish and Diné hydrogeologist and assistant professor in science education at the University of British Columbia, researches Indigenous astronomy, with a special interest in ...

It came from outer space. Interstellar space, to be precise. From somewhere beyond the influence of our sun, possibly from ...