The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics figured out, space reveals something so bizarre it rewrites the rulebook. These ...

Far from the planets and familiar constellations, an interstellar visitor is pulsing with a rhythm that looks uncannily like ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond Neptune.

December is the month that fans of 3I/ATLAS have been waiting for as the interstellar comet makes its closest approach to ...

Astronomers have found that a weird space rock at the edge of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance with Neptune. The object, designated 2020 VN40, is part of a family of distant solar system ...

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange and exciting new object in space. Using a huge radio telescope, we spotted a ...

Citizen scientists discover the farthest and most powerful Odd Radio Circle, composed of two giant intersecting rings of radio light. Credit: RAD@home Astronomy Collaboratory (India) illustration The ...

Astronomers have a new explanation for mysterious "little red dots" observed in the early universe: Maybe they're not crowded star clusters that upend everything scientists know about galaxies. Maybe ...