Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...

Scientists Spot a Deep-Space Object That Shouldn’t Exist ...

A niche corner of the commercial space sector is attracting attention from United States national security planners, not because of its economic promise, but because of the technical problems it is ...

Imagine looking up at the night sky and spotting a huge, mysterious interstellar object racing through space, coming from far beyond our solar system. It is moving fast, and it seems to be heading in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The plot of the movie Independence Day could soon become reality—as early as this November. According to Harvard astronomer Avi ...

A new SpaceX effort to provide space traffic coordination services has attracted attention and praise in part because of the conditions it places on users.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the ...

A database of objects launched by the United States into space is expected to be launched soon, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information, a division of the National Oceanic and ...

For a decade and a half, astronomers have been on the trail of a galactic mystery. In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — ...

It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal” that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenya Space Agency, the ...

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis—not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass cases ...

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