For thousands of years, humanity viewed the skies as unchanging, except for a few "wandering stars" (that we now know are planets). As we improved our ability to perceive the cosmos with ...

NASA astronomers have witnessed the movement of the fastest ever comet seen so far and using Hubble Space Telescope clicked ...

Astronomers have finally confirmed the existence of a long-suspected companion star orbiting Betelgeuse, the iconic red ...

Dr. Brendan Walsh can often be found staring into the night sky, focusing his telescope on galaxies as far as 50 million ...

James Webb Space Telescope captures ultra-detailed cosmic images in infrared, revealing faint, distant galaxies, stars, and ...

Breathtaking celestial photographs, most recently from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capture a beauty beyond terrestrial ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

NASA has other spacecraft that would benefit from a reboost to extend their useful lives. The Hubble Space Telescope springs ...

NASA has confirmed the detection of 3I/ATLAS, the fastest interstellar object ever observed, speeding through our solar system at an astonishing 130,000 miles per hour.

Details about a mysterious interstellar object detected in the solar system on July 1 are now out, as shared by NASA ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS moving through the solar system at 130,000 ...

At the heart of the red nebula, called NGC 2014, lie bright young stars. Each is 10 to 20 times heavier than our Sun.