Scientists are scratching their heads over a recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovery that looks more like a piece of fruit than your typical celestial sphere. The planet, designated PSR J2322-2650b, has simply been described by astronomers ...
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Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS nears Earth with a bizarre 'anti-tail' and 14 anomalies. Is it a comet or alien tech?
"We're going to be making 3D movies of what is going on in the Milky Way galaxy."
An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has identified the origin of X-rays in a supermassive black hole's ...
Astronomers say 3I/ATLAS is so unusual that it is forcing a rethink of probability distributions used to model interstellar object properties.
iPTF14hls is a star that refuses to follow the rules. Discovered in September 2014, it was supposed to be a typical supernova --explode once, dim in about 100 days, leave behind a neutron star or black hole. Instead, it kept exploding for over 1,000 ...
There's going to be a new space telescope in town: the Nancy Grace Roman (the famous NASA astronomer, not to be mistaken for the crime show host), which is slated to launch by May 2027. At least initially, its main mission will be to chart the nature ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on 19 December, offering astronomers a rare early Christmas spectacle.
The third-ever interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, makes its closest approach to Earth on Dec 19.