For the first time, scientists have found strong evidence of a "polar planet"—a planet whose orbit is tilted at 90 degrees ...

Astronomers have confirmed that interstellar objects—cosmic bodies originating from other stars—are passing through our solar ...

The image of Luke Skywalker gazing wistfully across the desert of Tatooine while a pair of “suns” set on the horizon is among ...

In a recent livestream from the International Space Station (ISS), viewers were left puzzled after spotting what looked like ...

A supermassive black hole that scientists have nicknamed "Ansky" is now awake after a long dormant period, emitting powerful ...

"Polar orbit" means that instead of orbiting in the same plane as where the two stellar objects are located, the planet’s orbit is 90 degrees to that plane, as you can see in the image above. This ...

Researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions -- and it could change our understanding of how life began. Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less ...

Brian Cox, a professor in particle physics in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester said on X: “For everyone asking about the strange spiral shape in the sky ...

Scientists have revealed the unusual shape of a large asteroid with ... the National Science Foundation's National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory (NOIRLab). "This find was rather ...