Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Scientists Spot a Deep-Space Object That Shouldn’t Exist ...

Far out in the dark between the stars, a small visitor is carving a path through our solar system and leaving behind patterns ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is on the opposite side of the sun from Earth - but several spacecraft are in the perfect position to ...

A new SpaceX effort to provide space traffic coordination services has attracted attention and praise in part because of the conditions it places on users.

A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten an up-close look at a headline-grabbing object known as 3I/ATLAS that has recently wandered into Earth's cosmic neighborhood from far away. The image, which ...

A mysterious object has caused a long-lasting and extreme dimming of a distant star, but is this object a 'failed star' brown dwarf, or an exceptionally massive super-Jupiter exoplanet?

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.

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis—not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass cases ...

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