They're known to rotate quickly, but scientists just found an extreme example of a neutron ... star would be one of the fastest-spinning objects ever observed in the universe, matched only by ...

The sprawling "Guitar Nebula" in deep space. A rapidly spinning, profoundly dense object is blasting a "flame-like" beam into ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has recently been used to watch an interesting object known as a centaur. Centaurs are objects ...

A compound lens forged by two galaxies is helping astronomers get a bead on the Hubble Constant and dark energy.

"It is important to underscore that, to date, AARO has not discovered any verifiable evidence of extraterrestrial beings, ...

it's easy to see pretty much anything you want on the seemingly infinite canvas of space. And this year, on Valentine's Day, we choose to see love. Heart-shaped objects are plentiful across the ...

They are extraordinarily compact. Just a sugar cube-sized piece of this extremely dense material — the remnants of a collapsed, exploded star — weighs 1 billion tons. They're known to rotate quickly, ...

countries are required to return any "foreign" space objects found in their territory to the owners. Dr Gorman said that there were many reasons why a country would want debris back, such as ...

The project aims to locate objects in space that have appeared or disappeared over time by comparing older photos to those taken today. In doing so, an international team of scientists identified ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) estimates that 130 million space debris objects 0.4 to 0.4 inches in size (1 mm to 1 cm) hurtle around the planet. In 2016, one such fragment punched a 16-inch (40 cm) ...