Astronomers have spotted an object from outside our solar system bolting toward the Sun at around 150,000 mph (240,000 km/h).

For years, scientists have suspected that stars can meet their doom by a one-two punch of back-to-back explosions — but ...

The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...

The first interstellar object spotted in our Solar System was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017 by the ...

Astronomers spotted an object speeding at 133,200 miles per hour (about 214,364 kilometres per hour), which is too fast to be ...

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

HIP 67522 b, a Jupiter-sized planet, orbits its star in just 7 days. Its closeness disturbs the star’s magnetic field, triggering stellar flares that scorch the planet’s atmosphere ...

Astronomers from the University of Turku in Finland and elsewhere have performed a broadband spectral and timing study of an ...

A supernova explosion occurred on July 4, 1054, resulting from the death of a star estimated to be nine to eleven times the ...

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

NASA has since confirmed the object is an interstellar comet called 3I/ATLAS – and it is only the third interstellar object ...