High above Antarctica, two giant NASA balloons are being readied to drift along the edge of space, turning the polar sky into a laboratory for some of the hardest questions in physics. Instead of ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

NASA's newest Hubble Space Telescope image of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has intensified scientific scrutiny after ...

There is a way out of this trap, but it requires a fundamental shift in how NASA thinks about astrophysics procurement. It is time to stop buying hardware and start subscribing to outcomes. It is time ...

A small star named M82 X-2 breaks physical barriers, as NASA's NuSTAR confirms it shines 10 million times brighter than the ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

A NASA astrophysicist has recently proposed a theory that could potentially resolve the long-standing Fermi Paradox. The theory suggests that alien civilizations may be scattered sparsely throughout ...

The image was taken when the exocomet was nearly 178 million miles away from Earth. In its blog describing the new picture, NASA remarked, Because the object comes from outside our solar system, it is ...

An interstellar object roughly the size of Manhattan has captured scientists’ attention — and one prominent Harvard astrophysicist believes it could be something far beyond natural. According to the ...

A rare interstellar comet reaches its closest point to the sun on Wednesday and Thursday — and it's exciting astronomers around the world. Comet 3I/ATLAS is just the third confirmed interstellar ...