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In what's being called a "turning point," researchers has traced back the location of the origin of one of the brightest fast radio bursts.

Scientists Detect Precise Origin of Mysterious Signal From Deep Space

By Victor Tangermann

Radio Astronomers Find Weird Object in Nearby Galaxy That Stands Out Against the Entire Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleagues suggest the possibility interstellar space object 3I/ATLAS is generating "its own light."

Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process — but in the case of one supernova, things were more gruesome than any astronomer had seen.

There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thought to be some kind of galaxy, the Little Red Dots were spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope and have stumped astronomers for years.

Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery

By Frank Landymore

That strange interstellar object flying by us may, according to one outlandish astronomer, have been sent by aliens to see how smart we are.

Astronomer Suggests New Interstellar Object Could be Advanced Aliens Testing Our Intelligence

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have unraveled the mystery of a bright celestial object that looks like the Eye of Sauron from Middle Earth.

Astronomers in Awe of Terrifying “Eye of Sauron” That’s Pointed Straight at Earth

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri.

Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri

By Victor Tangermann

As the comet 3I/ATLAS through our Solar System, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best look yet at the interstellar visitor.

Hubble Captures Glorious New Image of That Mysterious Object Cruising Into Our Solar System

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a mysterious exoplanet in Alpha Centauri.

Scientists Appear to Have Spotted an Unknown Planet in Nearest Star System to Earth

By Frank Landymore

Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb is still holding onto hope that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by extraterrestrials.

Scientists Just Found Something Very Weird About the Mysterious Object Hurtling Into Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He’s Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space

Elon Musk Is Furious That People Are Launching So Many Satellites, Even Though He’s Personally Responsible for 60 Percent of All Satellites Currently in Space

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists are wondering whether the latest interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, may have been sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization.

Scientist Suggests Tests to See if Large Object Headed Toward Earth Could Be an Alien Spacecraft

By Victor Tangermann

The tentative detection of complex organic molecules around a young star has big implications about these crucial chemicals to life.

Scientists Find Evidence That Original Life on Earth Was Assembled From Material in Space

By Frank Landymore

The Hubble Space Telescope just snapped some stunning photos of our solar system's newest interstellar obect, 3I/ATLAS.

Hubble Snaps Photos of Interstellar Invader

By Frank Landymore

Chinese researchers say they've devised a new way to extract water from lunar soil and convert it into fuel.

Chinese Scientists Invent System for Extracting Oxygen, Water and Rocket Fuel From Moon Dust

By Victor Tangermann

When checking out Uranus, scientists discovered something exciting: that the planet appears to have a long-term partner.

Scientists Say That Uranus Appears to Have a Girlfriend

By Noor Al-Sibai

A strange interstellar object is hurdling its way towards Earth — and Harvard's top UFO hunter thinks it could be harmful alien tech.

Harvard Paper Explores Possibility That Object Approaching From Beyond Solar System Is Hostile Alien Technology

By Noor Al-Sibai

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests that if interstellar object 3I/ATLAS isn't a comet, nor an asteroid, it may have been "sent" to us.

Astronomer Says the Object Approaching Us From Beyond the Solar System Is Not What We Think

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists have witnessed evidence of a collision between black holes so huge that it defies their understanding of physics.

Scientists Detect Sign of Something Impossible Out in Deep Space

By Frank Landymore

The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest mysteries.

Scientists Say Earth May Be Trapped Inside a Huge, Strange Void

By Frank Landymore

When huge stars are denied a glorious death, something more brutal occurs, and you get mysterious signals known as fast x-ray transients.

Mysterious Signals From Deep Space Hint at Something Brutal, Scientists Say

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, came from interstellar space. It appears to be billions of years old.

The Interstellar Visitor Hurtling Toward the Center of Our Star System Is Unimaginably Ancient, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have confirmed that a recently spotted object is an interstellar visitor, and appears to have come from the center of our galaxy.

Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Solar System Is Coming From the Center of the Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

A satellite designed monitor hidden methane emissions has been declared lost after mission operators lost contact.

Major Satellite Suddenly Disappears

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.

Astronomers Capture First-Ever Image of Star That Exploded Twice

By Frank Landymore

Families trying to memorialize to their lost loved ones in space were shocked to learn that those remains ended up at sea.

Families Get Unpleasant Surprise After Trying to Shoot Their Loved Ones’ Ashes Into Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have detected a gigantic comet, and it's spewing gases from its nucleus as it shoots through our cosmic neighborhood.

Scientists Intrigued by Comet With Jets Blasting From Its Interior

By Sharon Adarlo

A trippy fringe theory suggests that time is the source of all physical matter, and space is merely a byproduct.

Time Is Three-Dimensional and Space Is Just a Side Effect, Scientist Says

By Noor Al-Sibai

An eight-foot-across spacecraft flown by a European aerospace outfit came back to Earth and got lost at sea.

Alert: There’s a Lost Spaceship in the Ocean

By Sharon Adarlo

Astrophysicist and Nobel laureate Reinhard Genzel is slightly skeptical about a new study that used AI to tease out a black hole's secrets.

Nobel Prize Winner Warns About Astronomers Using AI to Make Discoveries

By Frank Landymore

We're on the verge of decoding a telltale signal emitted when the universe gave birth to the very first stars.

Scientists Working to Decode Signal From Earliest Years of Universe

By Frank Landymore

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. The results are stunning.

Scientists Line Up Satellites to Create “Artificial Total Solar Eclipse”

By Victor Tangermann

The Space Station Leak Is Rearing Its Ugly Head Again

The Space Station Leak Is Rearing Its Ugly Head Again

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency released images that provide the first clear view of the southern pole of the Sun.

Astronomers Just Took the First-Ever Picture of the Bottom of the Sun

By Frank Landymore

The Pentagon's UFO office has learned that military officials have repeatedly spread disinformation about phony "alien technology."

Air Force Colonel Gave Out Photos of Flying Saucers Near Area 51

By Noor Al-Sibai

If you look just right, the Sun appears to be opening its mouth and laughing at us — and that "smile" is weirder than you'd think.

Giant Crude “Face” Appears on Surface of Sun

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers have spotted something strange: a mysterious object that keeps emitting dual X-ray and radio wave pulses every 44 minutes.

Scientists Spot Mysterious Object in Our Galaxy Pulsing Every 44 Minutes

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of researchers have discovered a binary system in which a pulsar orbited inside the outer layers of its companion star.

Scientists Startled by Discovery of Small Star Swimming Through Outer Layers of Another Larger Star

By Frank Landymore

SpaceX now has its own company town — and the Elon Musk-owned company is already trying to mess with its residents' rights

Elon Musk’s New Company Town Tells Residents Their Rights Are Now Optional

By Noor Al-Sibai

New research suggests that our entire solar system is vulnerable to being thrown into chaos by a distant star.

Scientists Fear a Passing Star Could Fling Earth Out of the Sun’s Orbit, Into the Frigid Expanse Beyond

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have captured the Sun's corona in astonishing detail, revealing mesmerizing features like coronal rain — all in pink.

New Imaging Technique Makes the Sun Look Like a Swirling Pink Liquid

By Frank Landymore

Everything, as they say, is bigger in Texas — including the space-adjacent sexual harassment scandals, and the egos behind them.

Texas Solicitor General Resigns After Sharing Bizarre Fantasy About An Asteroid

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists are intrigued after spotting a highly unusual celestial object lurking at the very edge of our solar system.

Scientists Detect Mysterious Object in Deep Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists suggest a star and its planet are orbiting a second star in two opposite directions in an exotic binary star system.

Scientists Intrigued by Strange Behavior of Distant Planet

By Victor Tangermann

New research suggests that Jupiter used to be at least twice as big as it is today, during a crucial moment in the Solar System's evolution.

Scientists Find Jupiter Used to Be More Than Twice Its Current Size

By Frank Landymore

Astronomers have observed a quasar-powered galaxy lasering its opponent with a crippling beam of radiation.

Astronomers Intrigued by Galaxy Blasting Its Neighbor With Giant Energy Beam

By Frank Landymore

China is launching a space-bound AI supercomputer — and the first of its satellites were just sent up into orbit.

China Is Building an AI-Powered Supercomputer Network in Space

By Noor Al-Sibai

Across the American West, a massive glowing streak was seen in the skies — and an experimental rocket fuel seems to have been its source.

Chinese Spacecraft Accused of Dumping Experimental Fuel in Streak Seen Across American Sky

By Noor Al-Sibai

Astronomers still don't quite understand the mysteries of Teleios.

Astronomers Baffled by a Suspicious, Perfectly Round Sphere in Our Galaxy

By Frank Landymore

Samples taken from China's Tiangong space station contained a new, mysterious microbe that doesn't exist on Earth, researchers say.

Mysterious Bacteria Not Found on Earth Are Growing on China’s Space Station

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Australian startup Gilmour Space scrubbed the launch of its Eris rocket after its nose cone deployed while still on the launchpad.

Australian Rocket Launch Thwarted by Premature Payload Ejection

By Frank Landymore

Voyager 1, the furthest spacecraft from Earth that has been out there for nearly half a century, simply refuses to die.

Zombie Voyager 1 Spacecraft Resurrects Its “Dead” Thrusters Over 15 Billion Miles Away

By Noor Al-Sibai

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, we have a clear view of Jupiter's auroras, which are hundreds of times more powerful than Earth's.

There’s Something Very Unusual About Jupiter’s Auroras

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that the universe around us is decaying far more quickly than we thought, thanks to Hawking radiation.

Scientists Just Moved Up the Death Date of the Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have made an intriguing discovery that could upend everything we know about the structure of the universe and its expansion.

Scientists Say That Something Very Weird Is Going on With the Universe

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk said we must move to Mars because the Sun will swallow the Earth, ending life — which won't happen for another six billion years.

Elon Musk’s Urgent Concern: That the Earth Is Going to Get Swallowed by the Sun

By Victor Tangermann

After a Falcon 9 rocket exploded in 2016, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk became suspicious that a "sniper" on the roof of a rival's building shot it.

Elon Musk Became Fixated on the Idea That a Sniper Shot His Rocket, Causing It to Explode

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have detected a promising sign of a ninth planet lurking at the the farthest reaches of the Solar System.

Scientists Say They May Have Spotted a Huge Hidden Planet Deep in Our Solar System

By Frank Landymore

Scientists have discovered a gigantic, glowing gas of hydrogen gas lurking just 300 light-years away.

Scientists Intrigued by Glowing Cloud Near Our Solar System

By Victor Tangermann

A Russian satellite, which US officials have linked to the country's nuclear anti-satellite weapons program, is spinning out of control.

Russian Nuclear Military Satellite Spinning Out of Control

By Victor Tangermann

The dwarf galaxies surrounding Andromeda, the closest galaxy to our own, have an extremely strange distribution that's puzzling astronomers.

Astronomers Confused to Discover That a Bunch of Nearby Galaxies Are Pointing Directly at Us

By Frank Landymore

The hits just keep coming for Katy Perry, who is struggling in the wake of her Blue Origin trip to get audiences to shell out for seats.

Katy Perry Struggling to Sell Tickets After Disastrous Rocket Launch

By Noor Al-Sibai

Researchers have developed an AI model that identifies star system that could be harborbing an Earth-like exoplanet.

An AI Identifies Where All Those Planets That Could Host Life Are Hiding

By Frank Landymore