The sudden silence of a veteran Mars spacecraft has turned a routine comet flyby into one of the most intriguing space ...
Orbiting a pulsar, astronomers have found a strange, lemon-shaped exoplanet with winds of helium and pure carbon, denser than ...
December is the month that fans of 3I/ATLAS have been waiting for as the interstellar comet makes its closest approach to Earth.
Is it natural? Astronomers spot strange protrusion on object 3I/ATLAS as it speeds toward Earth. The interstellar comet shows ...
Over a month after its perihelion, or closest pass of the Sun, observations still clearly show 3I/ATLAS' "anti-tail." ...
A strange 200 million-year-old object with the mass of a planet has been discovered 20 light-years from Earth, outside our solar system. The "rogue," as it's referred to by researchers, is producing ...
Astronomers have a new explanation for mysterious "little red dots" observed in the early universe: Maybe they're not crowded star clusters that upend everything scientists know about galaxies. Maybe ...
Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.