This rogue star has been traveling the Universe. And now, it's finally entering our Solar System. But this isn't just any ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

New high-contrast images from SPHERE show a stunning variety of debris disks shaped by collisions of tiny planet-building ...

A small, icy traveler from deep space has just threaded its way through the inner Solar System, offering a fleeting but ...

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In a new study published in The Astrophysical Journal, a group of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder ...

For decades, astronomers have detected an unusual mix of ionised gas in the local clouds. Roughly 20% of hydrogen and 40% of ...

Beyond the local interstellar clouds and their wispy clumps of hydrogen and helium atoms in the form of gas and dust, the ...

The Very Large Telescope's SPHERE instrument captured unprecedented images of 51 dusty rings shaping young planetary systems.

Scientists find that two hot stars passed near our solar system 4.4 million years ago, altering nearby interstellar clouds.

Over 80% of exoplanetary systems with three or more planets exhibit a "peas-in-a-pod" architecture, characterized by similarly sized planets closely spaced and orbiting near their star. A new study ...

Nearly 4.5 million years ago, two large, hot stars brushed tantalizingly close to Earth's sun. They left behind a trace in ...