Astronomers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), working with international collaborators, have made a striking discovery involving a previously unknown type of cosmic ...

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Deep space has just delivered a cosmic curveball: an object that behaves so strangely it appears to break the rules astronomers use to describe how the universe grew up. The discovery centers on an ...

Astronomers have a new explanation for mysterious "little red dots" observed in the early universe: Maybe they're not crowded star clusters that upend everything scientists know about galaxies. Maybe ...

New data from NASA's SPHEREx and the Hubble Space Telescope show that the object known as 3I/ATLAS has changed in ways that contradict scientists' expectations. The mysterious visitor from the far ...

Despite its unmemorable name, J2322-2650 is a strange system. A Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbits an energetic neutron star, which constantly bombards it with gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers has ...

December is the month that fans of the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet have been waiting for. In a matter of days, the strange space object that has become a cultural phenomenon is due to get as close to ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is set to make its closest approach to Earth in December. 3I/ATLAS is the third-ever discovered object confirmed to have originated from outside our solar system. While ...

HANOVER COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — A strange object was seen flying over parts of Virginia on the afternoon of Jan.4 after a SpaceX launch earlier that morning. SpaceX announced early Jan. 4 that it had ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.