Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

"Honestly, it's been a little devastating," Kevin Hardegree-Ullman, a scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) at the University of Sharjah (UoS) organised a ...

This unprecedented view of the Bullet Cluster provided by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

Ntlathi is set to become the first black South African in space. But his joy may be dampened by the government seemingly ...

There was also Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), which became visible to the naked eye during late summer and early autumn ...

Researchers from the University of Glasgow teamed up with the culture and research organisation Science Ceilidh to develop a dance to mark the 10th anniversary of the historic first detection of ...

Only a few dozen of these short-lived binaries exist in the galaxy at a time, making the serendipitous find extremely ...