Some are as big as the Statue of Liberty. But these aren’t asteroids from our own solar system– they may have come from an ...

Astronomers have detected mysterious radio signals from Proxima Centauri, the closest star system to Earth. Could this be the ...

Stars form in regions of space known as stellar nurseries, where high concentrations of gas and dust coalesce to form a baby ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic ...

Sure, they’re particles and rocks, but they’re still a fascinatingly long way from home. Alpha Centauri is the star system ...

Simulations showed that over 10 lakh macroscopic objects, each wider than 100 metres were moving surreptitiously outside our ...

A new study examines how much material from the closest star system to Earth will end up in orbit around the Sun, and how ...

It might be hard spotting Venus on Valentine's Day in Indiana because of cloudy weather. February, however, is still the best month to see it.

Around a star just 20 light-years from the Solar System, astronomers have confirmed the existence of what might be a ...

Oumuamua and Comet Borisov in 2017 and 2019, respectively, created a surge of interest. What were they? Where did they come ...

Launched in 2016 by the late Stephen Hawking and tech investor Yuri Milner, Breakthrough Starshot aims to send miniature probes to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth. The plan relies ...

Though it was far from Juno's closest ... larger than Earth's own moon, the two celestial bodies couldn't be more different. While our moon is relatively calm, Io is considered to be the most ...