The low carbon levels are particularly interesting, as previously discovered “pristine” or metal-poor stars generally ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the biggest telescope ever created, was launched into space on Christmas Eve and one of the Irish scientists who worked on it will deliver an Astronomy Ireland ...

Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in ...

Scientists have discovered the most massive black hole in the universe to date, boasting a size equivalent to 36 billion suns. It is located in the galaxy known as the Cosmic Horseshoe, five billion ...

Astronomers have identified an enormous "growth spurt" in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our solar system, ...

Two more of NASA's space telescopes recently got another look at comet 3I/ATLAS, a captivating interstellar interloper that first captured the world's attention in July. The object – just the third ...

Astronomers observed a rogue planet devouring gas and dust at six billion tonnes per second, the fastest growth ever recorded ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...