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Astronomers have found evidence of a "bizarre interstellar object" that could be an alien spacecraft. The major space breakthrough, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was spotted travelling from another star to our sun ...

In 2017, astronomers made an unprecedented discovery: the first interstellar object ever confirmed to visit our solar system—1I/2017 U1, also known as Oumuamua. This mysterious object, unlike anything ...

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The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest ...

There may be many more satellite galaxies in the Milky Way than have been observed, according to new Durham University ...

One of the main objectives of the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was to measure the size and age of the Universe, ...

New simulations suggest that dozens of ultra-faint “ghost” galaxies may be orbiting the Milky Way, hidden from current ...

The most powerful telescope ever launched into space uncovered a cluster of forming stars within the "toe beans" of the Cat's ...

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.