Nature can get brutal. On a cosmic scale, things get even more destructive—leaving behind carnage made of stellar dust the size of an entire planet. Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Earth has a new friend — and it’s been waiting for us to notice it for decades. In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the ...

A massive comet traveling through the solar system is much larger than previously thought and could be a remnant of alien technology, a scientist claims in a new report. 3I/ATLAS was first identified ...

An interstellar visitor to our solar system known as 3I/ATLAS has captivated the public for months, and it's not hard to see why. But for scientists around the world, the discovery that 3I/ATLAS is ...

A new class of supermassive black holes embedded in a thick gas shell could explain small red dots in images from the James Webb Space Telescope. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech ...

A mysterious object hurtling through space has been identified as a rare “interstellar object,” only the third of its kind ever seen. In July, NASA reported its ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...

A request from McDonald’s to serve people food and drink until midnight at a new Stockton branch has drawn objections.

The newfound object, dubbed "the Cliff," suggests that the little red dots represent a totally new class of cosmic objects known as a "black hole star," the researchers say. This newly hypothesized ...

A request from McDonald’s to serve people food and drink until midnight at a new Stockton branch has drawn objections.

Today's counterfeiters use sophisticated techniques that can fool even experienced buyers. Learning to identify fake gold coins protects your investment and keeps you from falling victim to fraud.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: ⁠Extraterrestrial meteorites might be of interstellar origin for a few reasons. They may have unusual compositions, be crystals that formed earlier than our sun ...