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For decades, the movement of stars near the center of our Milky Way galaxy has provided some of the most convincing evidence for the existence of…
Astronomers utilizing the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have verified the presence of a starless, hydrogen-rich object primarily composed of dark matter. These intriguing entities, referred to…
Telescope Capture at Grasslands Observatory Credit: Tim Hunter et al. (2025) A long-lost star, discovered by the legendary astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard in 1892, has been…
A recently identified moon boasts an estimated diameter of 38 kilometers (23.6 miles) and a V magnitude of 28, marking it as the faintest moon ever…
The recently identified moon has an approximate diameter of 38 kilometers (23.6 miles) and a V magnitude of 28, making it the faintest moon ever found…
During its closest encounter with Mars on October 3, 2025, comet 3I/ATLAS was situated 30 million km from the ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). The…
Astronomers have detected hydroxyl (OH) gas, a chemical indicator of water, from the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS using an ultraviolet/optical telescope on NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory.…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft may be tasked with intercepting interstellar objects NASA/JPL-Caltech Interstellar objects passing through our solar system make a brief journey around the sun before…
Following the interstellar asteroid 1i/Oumuamua and comet 2i/Borisov, 3i/Atlas is the third identified object and the second comet from outside the solar system. This image was…
Altozillaalso known as the 2001 UQ18, is located outside the solar system, 6 billion km (3.7 billion miles), or 44 times the distance between the Earth…
Protesters gathered outside Tesla dealers across the United States on Saturday in response to Elon Musk’s efforts to sculpt government spending under President Donald Trump. Groups…
overviewNASA’s Parker Solar Probe is expected to dive extremely close to the sun’s surface on December 24th.The spacecraft will have to fly closer to the Sun…
An object moving through space at close to 1 million miles per hour has been detected, moving so fast that it is leaving the Milky Way…
NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured these views of the small red moon Amalthea and its parent planet during a flyby on March 7, 2024. These views of…
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Researchers have identified a quasar with a black hole at its center that may be the most luminous object in the universe.…
Artist's impression of a pulsar orbiting a black hole – one possible interpretation of the mysterious binary star systemDaniel Hutseller (artsource.nl) Some 40,000 light-years away, a…
A neutron star is the collapsed core of a massive starwww.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg3005 Some 40,000 light-years away, a strange object could be either the heaviest neutron star or…