Scientists are on high alert as an unidentified object has been detected speeding towards Earth. The nature of this object remains a mystery, but one expert suggests it could be extraterrestrial in ...

Humanity’s relationship with the moon has always been simple. One planet, one moon — a cosmic partnership as reliable as sunrise. But that clarity just got murkier. Astronomers have confirmed ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Earth has a new friend — and it’s been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the ...

As interstellar object 3I/ATLAS swept past Earth on 19 December 2025, viral theories claimed cosmic indifference or alien intent. Here is what happened and why astronomers were watching so closely.

Richard Binzel has been watching the skies for hazardous asteroids for more than 50 years. In 1995, he proposed the Near-Earth Object Hazard Index, later renamed the Torino scale, which rates ...

In a new study, scientists at the University of Missouri looked deep into the universe and found something unexpected. Using infrared images taken from NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ...

Humanity stands at the crossroads of science and speculation as claims resurface that an enormous unidentified flying object ...

With the aid of a multinational network of radio telescopes, scientists have been able to detect the lowest-mass dark object ever found in the universe. The mysterious object, roughly one million ...