Gleise 710, an orange dwarf star about 63 light years away, is on course to pass through the outer reaches of our solar ...

The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as ...

A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet ...

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There’s a bit of a paradox about our galaxy: it’s both jam-packed with stars and cavernously empty. The Milky Way is crowded in the sense that it holds hundreds of billions of stars, as well as ...

Astronomers have directly spotted a rare young planet, WISPIT 2b, still forming within the gap of a dusty ringed disk around a star like our sun—something long theorized but never observed until now.