NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, a fascinating documentary looking at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting Earth from large asteroids spotted coming our way. The 75-minute ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer space ...

New Hubble images have revealed objects with shapes and patterns that don’t match any known class of celestial bodies.

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 ...

(The REPORTER) — “Being able to see those cosmic objects that are millions and millions of miles away is very, very fascinating for me,” local astrophotographer Sid Krishnamoorthi said. We often ...

There's a class of objects in the cosmos that are neither stars, nor are they quite planets. And with this new research, scientists have improved our understanding of these elusive free-floating ...

The Sun is the brightest thing around, but many cosmic objects can be much brighter. And in fact, astronomers at NASA have ...

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