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

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the ...

(Inside Science) — Pluto is not a planet, according to the vast majority of astronomers. While it orbits the Sun and is mostly round, it does not orbit alone, instead traversing the solar system ...

The largest interstellar comet discovered could be an alien technology. The newly found Manhattan-sized object, named 3I/ATLAS, is approximately 7 miles wide and racing through our solar system. Avi ...

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

A new and mysterious object has been discovered in the Milky Way and could be a combination of a black hole and a special type of star. Found 40,000 light years away in our galaxy, the potentially new ...

Space debris was seen over Saskatchewan burning up on re-entry and one astronomer says it serves as a reminder about the ...

It's like traveling back in time: The James Webb telescope allows researchers to look enormously far into the past. Up to 13 billion light years - in other words, until shortly before the Big Bang. An ...

Jack Knudson is an assistant editor for Discover Magazine who writes articles on space, ancient humans, animals, and sustainability, and manages the Planet Earth column of the print issue. View Full ...

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

A mysterious slab of metal stands silently in the desert, leaving Earth’s primates puzzled. That’s how the Stanley Kubrick film 2001: A Space Odyssey begins. It’s also the way things are playing out ...