Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An extremely slow pulsar has made scientists “slow down” their assumptions about other pulsars. The pace ...
"It's only because this object is so extreme that we can observe it from Earth, even though it's really far away," Anniek ...
The celestial near-Earth object, known as 2024 PT5, measures about 33 feet (10 meters) wide; however, it’s not in any danger ...
A Noida-based Class 9 student has earned the remarkable distinction of naming an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between ...
Chiron, discovered in 1977, stands out for its cometary activity and the potential presence of rings of material. These characteristics make it a privileged object of study to understand the ...
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.
Like the nickname suggests, these celestial objects appear to be compact—much smaller than our Milky Way galaxy. And their color is reddish, although their light signatures are also unusual in ...