Astronomers Found a Planet Nine Candidate—But It’s in the Wrong Place
A team of astronomers says it has identified a single, slow-moving infrared object that checks all the right…
Scientists Discover a Massive, Glowing Blob of Hydrogen Very Close to Our Solar System
The birthplace of stars begins within large, cold clouds of gas and dust, which eventually collapse under the…
NASA Takes Advantage of Planetary Alignment to Take a Peek at Uranus
On April 7, Uranus passed in front of a distant star located 400 light-years away, giving NASA scientists…
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Send Back Video Of ‘Peculiar’ Asteroid
Topline NASA’s Lucy spacecraft has successfully completed a flyby of a three-mile-wide asteroid between Mars and Jupiter, sending…
Most Carbon-Rich Asteroids Never Make It to Earth—and Now We Know Why
A study of thousands of space rocks may explain why a common type in space is so uncommon…