Excited astronomers are still refining their calculations, but the object appears to be zooming at a speed up to 60 kilometres (37 miles) a second, which would mean it is not bound by the Sun's orbit, unlike comets, which all originate from within the Solar System.

The gas giants are not capable of hosting extraterrestrial life, but do offer clues in a lingering mystery about how distant planets form, according to a study in The Astrophysical Journal.

Astronomers have observed a fireball 100 times the size of our solar system that suddenly began blazing in the distant universe more than three years ago.

Paris, France--A newly discovered comet could be visible to the naked eye as it shoots past Earth and the Sun in the coming weeks for the first time in 50,000 years, astronomers have said. The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it...

Researchers using the new observatory have found the furthest galaxies ever observed, one of which existed just 350 millions years after the Big Bang some 13.8 billion years ago.

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy, scientists said the Ryugu samples could give clues to the mystery of how oceans appeared on Earth billions of years ago.

Lebanon's energy industry sees a loss of up to $2bn every year as state treasury pays over $50bn in advances to Electricité du Liban. Can solar power offer relief to general public?

TNOs are small objects that orbit the sun beyond Neptune. These are fossils from the early days of the solar system NYU Abu Dhabi study reports that two groups of TNOs with different surface colors also have very different orbital patterns Abu Dhabi:  A new study led by Mohamad Ali-Dib,...