For a decade and a half, astronomers have been on the trail of a galactic mystery. In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a high-speed comet traveling through our solar system. Scientists say the comet poses no danger to the Earth, and Hubble’s observations will ...

A NASA mission, IMAP, and two more spacecraft that will study space weather are traveling through space atop a single SpaceX rocket. By Kenneth Chang A SpaceX rocket launched on Wednesday morning ...

After nearly half a century of traveling through space, NASA’s Voyager mission has made another astonishing discovery — one that could redefine where our Solar System truly ends. Voyager 1, launched ...

It’s a stellar discovery. A Manhattan-sized interstellar comet was spotted blazing through our solar system — marking only the third time a mysterious object from beyond our cosmic neighborhood has ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shared the images of comet 3I/ATLAS. It's possibly as big as Manhattan, likely older than our own solar system and it's traveling through space at speeds of up to ...

Astronomers are buzzing over a mysterious interstellar object named 3I/Atlas, traveling through space at more than 100,000 miles per hour. While many believe it’s a comet, Harvard physicist Dr.

Invisible Dark: Lone black holes passing through the galaxy should be a pretty common occurrence in the Milky Way, but they are notoriously hard to spot. According to recently published research, we ...

Imagine sitting in your living room when a piece of space rock older than Earth itself comes crashing through your roof. That’s exactly what happened to one unlucky homeowner in McDonough, Georgia, ...