Even with eclipsing binaries, measuring the properties of stars is no easy task. Stars are deformed as they rotate and pull on each other in a binary system. They interact, they irradiate one another, ...

THE mysterious interstellar object blazing through our solar system could be a piece of “possibly hostile” alien technology, ...

Following the historic discoveries of ‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, astronomers have now confirmed the presence of a third interstellar object passing through our solar system. This groundbreaking ...

For lovers of newly identified space objects, July has indeed been an exciting month. Last week, astronomers described ...

A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, captured what they believe are the very first moments of rocky planet formation around ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

Astronomers have discovered "Ammonite," a mysterious object on the solar system’s edge whose unusual orbit challenges current ...