We are in Germany and it's winter, so we can confidently assume that it is cold, with possible snow covering the fields and roofs of houses. Here we meet the protagonist of this story, farmer and ...

In the run up to Christmas, carols fill the air. Many have an astronomical twist, singing of the "Christmas Star" from the ...

With 3I/ATLAS slated to make its Earth tour in two days, amateur photographers and astronomers alike are scrambling to catch ...

I/ATLAS may have moved away from Earth as it makes its way out of the solar system, but this interstellar intruder continues ...

This is the first detailed detection of a jet of gas and dust shooting out from an interstellar comet's center.

Comet 3I/ATLAS arrived in the inner solar system looking like it should not exist, an icy fragment from interstellar space on ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

This interstellar vagabond is only the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered — an asteroid or comet ...

Scientists atop Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawai’i and across the Hawaiian chain are turning their telescopes skyward Friday ...

Edmond Halley, born November 8, 1656, is recognized for his mathematical prediction of Halley's Comet's return in 1758, despite not being its discoverer or having observed it. Halley applied Isaac ...

Scientists discovered 128 new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the planet’s total to 274. Many of these moons are “only a few ...

An odd star brightened for more than 70 days in 5 B.C.E., according to a Chinese text. The object may have been a comet that ...