The universe has a knack for throwing curveballs at astronomers. Just when scientists think they’ve got cosmic mechanics ...

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

New Hubble images have revealed objects with shapes and patterns that don’t match any known class of celestial bodies.

Astronomers have discovered phosphine gas in the atmosphere of an ancient brown dwarf, Wolf 1130C, using the James Webb Space ...

The vast majority of matter is dark – invisible until it is detected only through its gravitational effects. The newly discovered object could be a clump of dark matter, or it could also be a compact, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...

A hunk of space junk appears to have come in hot and heavy in Australia. On Saturday (Oct. 18), mine workers found a mysterious smoking slab sitting near a remote access road some 19 miles (30 ...

Suspected space junk which crashed near an iron ore mine in remote WA has been linked to a Chinese rocket launch.