Space is not as empty as it looks. Right now, as you read this, NASA scientists are actively watching dozens of objects ...

CWISE J1249+36, a low-mass runaway star, is traveling at an extraordinary speed that could propel it out of the Milky Way.

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a previously undiscovered and currently unknown astrophysical anomaly, discovered in the Hubble Space Telescope’s archive ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has started releasing its first discoveries: including supernovae, variable stars and asteroids ...

Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...

The Rubin Observatory issues rapid alerts for changing celestial objects, enabling global scientists to detect supernovae, asteroids, and variable stars within minutes of observation.

Astronomers used AI to search 35 years of Hubble data and discovered over 1,300 rare cosmic anomalies hidden in plain sight.

A NASA team using the Hubble Space Telescope found an object in space never recorded before, nicknamed “Cloud-9.” Cloud-9 is a starless, gas-rich, dark-matter cloud considered a “relic” or remnant of ...

Witnesses described an intensely bright object racing across the sky from the southwest to the northeast, leaving behind a ...

The X-ray-emitting binary system Cygnus X-3 features a massive star donating matter to a compact object, probably a black hole. That may explain its perplexing brightness. When you purchase through ...