Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and ...

Scientists using a global array of radio telescopes have detected the universe’s lowest-mass dark object by observing how it warped light through gravitational lensing. The invisible mass, about a ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

Astronomers have found what could become the first target for a crucial test of NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space ...

Astronomers have discovered phosphine gas in the atmosphere of an ancient brown dwarf, Wolf 1130C, using the James Webb Space Telescope. The finding is puzzling because phosphine, a potential ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is making its closest approach to Earth in just over a week from now, coming within 167 million ...

The dark object has a mass a million times greater than our sun's is located 10 billion light-years away and has no stars. A "dark object" detected as an anomalous notch in the arc of a ...

Scientists studying new data from the James Webb Space Telescope have found three strange objects in 2025 that may be something called dark stars. These objects could change how scientists understand ...

“Will Horwitt: Drawings from the 60’s,” installation view of two untitled drawings from 1965, ink on paper (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) In 1965, when Will Horwitt was 31, the ...

A newly found space rock almost broke a speed record. The asteroid, called 2025 SC79, has a pathway within the orbit of Venus that zips around the sun in only 128 days, making it the second-fastest ...

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated by relics more than a quarter-century old, primarily dead rockets left to hurtle through space at the end ...