Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

The Rubin Observatory released its first magnificent images of the cosmos on Monday, June 23 — and included a special ...

It appears our solar system is getting more popular with out-of-towners. Astronomers may have found a third interstellar ...

An object thought to have come from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to ...

After threatening our world with a three percent chance of impact, asteroid 2024 YR4 exited the scene with a four percent ...

YR4 made headlines earlier this year when its probability of impacting Earth in 2032 rose as high as 3%. While an Earth ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which boasts the world's largest digital camera, has begun displaying its first images of ...

Chile's Vera C. Rubin Observatory has unveiled its first cosmic images using a 3,200-megapixel camera, allowing astronomers ...

An observatory in Chile with the world's largest camera has published first images of star nurseries and galaxies. The Vera ...

While about 20,000 previously unknown asteroids are discovered every year by telescopes around the world and spacecraft in orbit, the first images by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory revealed 2,000 ...