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Astronomers simply can't shake the feeling that there's something really off about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

James Webb Space Telescope

Four Telescopes Confirm There’s Something Deeply Strange About the Mysterious Object Headed Into the Solar System

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

Researchers have found that the thick and hazy atmosphere enveloping Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves in a very peculiar way.

Scientists Puzzled by Mysterious Motion in Atmosphere of Saturn’s Moon

By Victor Tangermann

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.

Scientists Tried to Kill Spacecraft But It Was So Tough That It Refused to Die

By Victor Tangermann

The first metal thingamajig ever 3D printed in space has landed on Earth, where European Space Agency scientists are now studying it.

First Metal Object 3D-Printed in Space Recovered on Earth

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Kenya Space Agency identified a "red-hot" eight-foot metal ring as a piece of space junk. Experts are still torn about its exact origin.

Expert Not Convinced Mysterious, 8-Foot Ring of “Space Junk” in Kenya Actually Came from Space

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer probe has spotted a habitable planet astonishingly close to us.

Rejoice! Spacecraft Confirms That Earth Is a Habitable Planet

By Victor Tangermann

ESA's JUICE probe is about to slingshot past Earth and the Moon on its way to Jupiter in what the agency is calling a "double world first."

Spacecraft to Scream Past Earth in a “Double World First” Slingshot Flyby

By Noor Al-Sibai

The ESA's Gaia mission has spotted hundreds of potential moons orbiting around more than 350 asteroids in the solar system.

Europe’s Gaia Telescope Spots Hundreds of Hidden, Lurking Moons

By Victor Tangermann

An $800-million-dollar space telescope has been damaged by a tiny piece of space debris that's said to be smaller than a grain of sand.

Expensive Space Telescope Damaged by Small Space Rock

By Noor Al-Sibai

An ESA scientific instrument dropped off by China's lunar lander detected negative ions on the far side of the Moon.

Chinese Lander Instrument Detects Negative Ions on Far Side of Moon

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency has released an incredible video of the Sun's roiling surface, which was taken by its Solar Orbiter last year.

Spacecraft Takes Close Up Video of the Sun, Revealing Otherworldly Hellscape

By Victor Tangermann

The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter has spotted mysterious "spiders" roaming the Red Planet's southern polar region.

Orbiter Spots “Spiders” on Surface of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Discover Enough Mars Ice to Cover Planet in Water

Scientists Discover Enough Mars Ice to Cover Planet in Water

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers recently simulated an atmospheric probe mission through Uranus and Neptune's atmospheres inside a plasma tunnel.

Scientists Simulate What It’s Like to Dive Into Uranus

By Victor Tangermann

During a recent probe, the European Space Agency's ExoMars probe spotted the Red Planet glowing green at night.

Scientists Catch Mars Glowing Green

By Noor Al-Sibai