When an object in space appears to be racing at nineteen times the speed of sound, it instantly jumps from routine data point ...

It might not seem obvious why astronomers need multiple different powerful space telescopes. Surely a more powerful telescope is better than a less powerful one? So why are there multiple different ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer space ...

The long-awaited photos, snapped by multiple NASA spacecraft between September and mid-October, show a tiny, glowing orb ...

It started as a side note in a high-resolution ALMA observation. Elena Shablovinskaia and her team weren’t hunting for the weird. They were mapping the bright, active heart of NGC 4945 — a nearby ...

A strange glowing object has appeared in our solar system. NASA has been observing it closely but the agency has not relased any images of it.

A bewilderingly powerful mystery object found in a nearby galaxy and only visible so far in millimeter radio wavelengths could be a brand new astrophysical object unlike anything astronomers have seen ...