First light for the innovative new instrument is anticipated in 2028. Spectre — once operational — will play a key role in ...

Why don't planets fall into the stars they orbit if they're constantly being pulled by gravity?Lindsey CoughterRocky Mount, ...

Humanity has long wondered if we are being watched from the stars, but the answer might lie in our own exhaust fumes. As the ...

Astronomers study planetary transits and atmospheric signals using interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, drawing on transit spectroscopy principles and recent observational constraints discussed by Avi Loeb.

I/ATLAS is a newly detected interstellar object that entered the solar system from outside our stellar neighborhood, ...

It's estimated there may be trillions of rogue planets wandering through the Milky Way, unbound to any star. Since detecting our first ones, we have been presented with an odd mystery.

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...

The Planetary Society continues to fund the search for potentially hazardous comets and asteroids that orbit close to our planet by awarding Gene Shoemaker Near Earth Object Grants to five researchers ...

Astronomers have signalled the discovery of a planetary body roaming the Milky Way that is not gravitationally bound to the ...

When a star is young, it is often still surrounded by a primordial rotating disk of gas and dust, from which planets can form. Astronomers like to find such disks because they might be able to catch ...

Scientists measured mass and distance of free floating planet drifting through space without star for first time.

The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth — ended its mission and burned on reentering the atmosphere after ...