Jackson Barnes, a graduate student at Michigan State University, created a simulation that reproduces the objects "naturally ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS continues to fascinate astronomers as it rips through our solar system. And the more we find out about the object — widely suspected to be an icy comet — the more ...

Scientists have long know many objects floating at the solar system's out edges resemble snowmen, but the reasons why were never clear. Now a student at Michigan State University has created the first ...

A large chunk of burning detritus discovered in the Pilbara desert of Western Australia appears to be space junk that reentered Earth's atmosphere, the Western Australia Police Force has announced.

Space agencies around the globe have launched an unprecedented wave of planetary defense exercises, all centered on a mysterious interstellar visitor that refuses to behave like anything scientists ...

Elon Musk says a mystery object hurtling through space 'could be alien ' and may 'obliterate a continent' or 'kill most of human life'. The composition of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS has been ...

A strange, starless cloud on the edge of a nearby galaxy is forcing astronomers to confront one of the biggest unknowns in physics. The object, nicknamed Cloud‑9, looks like a wisp of hydrogen gas, ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, announced the discovery of something truly spectacular: a mysterious object that appeared to ...

Astronomers have found a massive cloud of metallic winds orbiting a mystery object in space. The cloud was found when scientists noticed the light of a nearby star, which is located some 3,000 ...