"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...

Could a vagabond giant from the outermost regions of interstellar space be poised on the cusp of sweeping by our cosmic doorstep? Astronomers say yes and they have the data to support it. Using the ...

A young star’s disk shows unexpectedly high CO₂ and little water. The result questions standard theories of planet formation.

Astronomers simply can't shake the feeling that there's something really off about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

The core of Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, has long been a source of mystery for astronomers. Conventional ...

In this latest data mining, scientists unexpectedly discovered two planets with extremely unusual orbits, whose trajectories differ dramatically from the known patterns of planetary orbits. In our ...

The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...

The cosmos has always been a source of mystery and fascination, with its vastness filled with uncharted entities and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered a strange disk of gas and dust around an infant star that could challenge current models of planet formation.

What the swirling storms on alien worlds can tell us about the climate on Earth. Damond Benningfield A somewhat alarming new phrase entered the American lexicon when parts of the United States were ...

However, seismic anomalies detected on Mars by the InSight mission reveal that the mantle is far from smooth and contains ...