In a remarkable development, NASA has confirmed the detection of a mysterious object entering our solar system, classifying it as a visitor from interstellar space. This revelation, made in 2025, ...

The Copernican Principle, named in honor of Nicolaus Copernicus (who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe), states that Earth and humans do not occupy a special or privileged place in the ...

About 4. 6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity.

Some social media posts erroneously claimed that the comet could collide with Earth or serve as an alien probe. However, both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have firmly dismissed these ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

Described by scientists as an object 'still in its infancy', with an age of one to two million years, Cha 1107-7626 is already 10 times the mass of Jupiter, and is not only growing, but growing at an ...

In May 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson were testing how radio waves bounced off balloon satellites developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories. But they kept getting an unpleasant hissing noise, in ...

The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007 in archival data collected back in 2001, and scientists were pretty boggled. Lasting just milliseconds, the incredibly powerful spike of ...

Because the known Venus co-orbitals have strong eccentricity, they can move farther away from Venus and closer to Earth, thus becoming easier to see in our sky at twilight, when the Sun is below the ...

Device "seeks to identify planets beyond the solar system and other objects in space that would otherwise go unnoticed." ...

Throughout history, some of the most groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy have stemmed from serendipitous moments rather than deliberate research. These ...

LOWELL, Massachusetts – NASA on Oct. 1 launched a telescope designed and built by UMass Lowell and the space agency that seeks to identify planets beyond the solar system and other objects in space ...