Astronomers using Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a new type of cosmic object that is believed to be a “failed ...

Scientists are on high alert as an unidentified object has been detected speeding towards Earth. The nature of this object remains a mystery, but one expert suggests it could be extraterrestrial in ...

Humanity’s relationship with the moon has always been simple. One planet, one moon — a cosmic partnership as reliable as sunrise. But that clarity just got murkier. Astronomers have confirmed ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

JWST has identified nine distant, compact galaxies that do not fit existing categories, raising new questions about how galaxies formed in the early Universe.

Earth has a new friend — and it’s been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the ...

In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found something unexpected. Using infrared images taken from NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

With the aid of a multinational network of radio telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever found in the universe. The mysterious object, roughly one million ...