Oumuamua’s speed and path around the Sun don’t match a typical asteroid, but it also has no bright tail or nucleus (icy core) ...

Asteroid 2024 XS3, a small Apollo asteroid, safely passed Earth at a distance of 3.3 million kilometers on December 18, 2024.

Our solar system has fascinated mankind for thousands of years. Astronomical research is looking for answers to the big ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way ...

An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. It is the first time a stellar pair has been ...

Binary stars can’t survive long near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole — but for the first time, astronomers have ...

X-rays are radiated by matter hotter than one million Kelvin, and high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy can tell us about the ...

NASA is investigating "dark comets," mysterious celestial bodies lacking the bright tails typical of comets. With ...

Astronomers have detected 138 decameter-sized rocky bodies in the main asteroid belt, marking the smallest asteroids ever ...

NASA's discovery of dark comets reveals potential origins of life on Earth, but their unpredictable orbits raise concerns ...

Researchers have doubled the number of known dark comets, identifying two distinct types: larger ones in the outer solar ...

Astronomers analyzing archival images from JWST have discovered an unexpectedly vast population of the smallest asteroids ever seen in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.