The space object, named Chiron, is believed to be a piece of rock measuring a whopping 130 miles wide at its broadest point - ...

If it is a galaxy, it would be the oldest known galaxy in the cosmos, but it could also be a brown dwarf or an early black hole.

Astronomers have identified an enormous "growth spurt" in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our solar system, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead. The ...

A mysterious, smouldering object has been discovered in the Australian Outback, with authorities sharing theories on what ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Mysterious floating objects were spotted in the Tampa Bay area skies on Sunday evening. A video sent to WFLA.com from Betty Hicks in Avon Park shows these mysterious objects ...

Space is full of weird objects that don’t make sense according to what scientists thought they knew about the universe, and the last couple of years have been amazing for finding completely bonkers ...

Not everything about space is true. Our planetary scientist is here to share the truth about popular celestial myths.

For years, astronomers have been using the extremely steady flashes of light emanating from pulsars, the highly magnetized remains of dead stars that spin like cosmic lighthouses, to keep time on an ...

"This is the strongest accretion episode ever recorded for a planetary-mass object." Scientists have identified a lone planet with a ferocious appetite. Located in the Chamaeleon constellation roughly ...

A young rogue planet about 620 light-years away from Earth has experienced a record-breaking "growth spurt," hoovering up some six billion tons of gas and dust each second over a couple of months. A ...

The Arrow-3 system is a co-development between Israel and the United States. Israeli officials have pointed to intercepts of ...

"I think of JuMBOs as a cross between stars and brown dwarfs - they would have been like stars had it not been for the radiation from the more massive stars, which has sculpted them to be more like ...