For the past 60 years, Earth has had a secret companion in space—a quasi-moon that has been sharing our planet’s orbit around ...

PHI-1 is a 12U CubeSat, weighing up to 20 kilograms, with an expected operational lifespan of one year. It will conduct a ...

An amateur astronomer has accidentally uncovered a series of puzzling radio signals coming from SpaceX's government-operated ...

First up, just pointing a rocket at the Sun and blasting as hard as you can would result in a wild miss. The main problem you ...

NASA will reveal new imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Wednesday (Nov. 19), and you can watch it live. The ...

Teymour Taj meets astronomy MPhil student Gabriella Rajpoot, who works on an experiment uncovering the origins of the ...

SpaceX launched an advanced ocean-mapping satellite to orbit from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17). The Sentinel-6B ...

The structure of gas and dust resembles a glowing diamond ring / Computer simulations and observations made on board the ...

For the first time, astronomers say they have spotted a giant explosion released by a star beyond our solar system.

Space-watchers, hold on to your telescopes. The interstellar visitor we’ve all been buzzing about just threw a curveball.

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