The objects were in the same region of the sky but were 13,000 light-years apart and not related to each other. The details of the observation were published in a paper available at the arXiv preprint ...

Scientists at NASA for the first time have been able to observe the make up of Pluto and other small and icy celestial bodies ...

Astronomers have discovered two strange objects that could be young stars — except they're completely surrounded by ice. Astronomers ... and 2011 by Japan's AKARI space telescope.

Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely not an asteroid, but wasn't any sort of space object at all. Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster.

This suggests that they are isolated, floating in more remote regions of interstellar space. Kinematic analysis also ... The researchers compared the properties of the objects with those of other ...