The race to connect the world through satellite internet has created an unexpected casualty: our view of the cosmos. A new ...

"It is incredible that modern telescopic surveys have the ability to detect such small objects up to millions of kilometers ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system.

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

An Abu Dhabi-based observatory captured images of Comet SWAN25F on April 5. With astronomers still confirming its discovery, ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

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This week, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) published a catalog of 227 official star names. The list was published in order to standardize names and to cut down on confusion when ...

The International Astronomical Union voted Thursday encouraging space organizations across the globe to collaborate on a timekeeping standard for the moon, where one day lasts 29.5 Earth days.

The International Astronomical Union has been slammed as “boring” after it attacked a firm which profits by selling the right to name Martian craters. Uwingu is a website set up to create the ...

Our peer-reviewed reports present the evidence-based consensus of committees of experts. Published proceedings record the presentations and discussions that take place at hundreds of conferences, ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...