A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a ...

Using the European Southern Observatory 's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have caught it pulling in gas and ...

Observing the object over several months, they found it flared up dramatically. It's gobbling up 6 billion tonnes of mass per ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a significant “growth spurt” in a rogue planet outside of our solar system. The free-floating planet is currently consuming gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

Space is full of weird objects that don’t make sense according to what scientists thought they knew about the universe, […] ...

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 ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

While there is no reason to panic, please be aware that a visitor born near a star other than our Sun is currently passing through our Solar System. This alien visitor has been wandering through space ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system.