These icy bodies orbit the sun just like the major planets, yet they follow their own rules, often traveling along elongated ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station were not only treated to a sight from Earth's atmosphere recently but also caught a glimpse of one of the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbors.

Are Sun-like stars the only stars where Earth-like worlds exist? This is what a recent study presented this morning at the 2026 meeting of the American Astronomical Society hopes to address as a team ...

China has filed applications to reserve orbital slots for nearly 200,000 satellites, prompting international concern about ...

The latest wide-scale analysis of data from the Euclid Space Telescope has demonstrated just how big of an impact this European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft is set to have on science. Importantly, it ...

What can white dwarf stars eating their own planets teach astronomers about planetary and solar system formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal hopes ...

A nearby white dwarf is carving a colourful shockwave through space, puzzling astronomers and raising new questions about how this dense stellar remnant releases energy inside a tightly bound binary ...

NASA has finally peered into the heart of a white dwarf system in a way astronomers have been chasing for decades, turning a once-theoretical picture of stellar cannibalism into a mapped, measurable ...

In the shockwave, a red hue represented hydrogen, green represented nitrogen, and blue represented oxygen residing in interstellar space.