Rogue planets, also called free-floating planetary-mass objects, typically have a mass a few times greater than Jupiter, ...

Orbs with twin suns, a star twice as old as our sun... see how new discoveries, with surprising similarities to fiction, are rewriting our understanding of the universe.

Two newly discovered comets are streaking across the sky in a spectacular display as they make their closest approaches to ...

An artist's rendering of two comets that will make a near-earth passes later this month. The first, known as SWAN, will pass ...

Comet SWAN will be visible only in early evenings after sunset, while Lemmon can be seen just before sunrise. However, both ...

A population of asteroids silently shares Venus's orbit, creating a potential threat to our planet. These celestial bodies, ...

Auburn University physicists have detected water activity in comet 3I/ATLAS, marking the first time hydroxyl gas, water's chemical signature, has been observed from an interstellar visitor.

Scientists have discovered the first direct measurements of the chemical and physical properties of a carbon-rich disk surrounding an exoplanet hundreds of light years away that could reveal how moons ...

The comets, named C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN), are visible from the Northern Hemisphere as their orbits take them through the inner solar system.

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.

Archeologists have uncovered an “extraordinary” stash of 600-year-old medieval artefacts within bearded vulture nests in the ...