The universe contains somewhere in the ballpark of 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies. With numbers that large, you can bet that there are some real weirdos out there. Out beyond our Milky Way, there are galaxies shaped like jellyfish, galaxies that consume other galaxies, and galaxies that seem to lack the dark matter that pervades the rest of the universe.
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover is still traversing the Red Planet on its own, searching for evidence of past life there.
A terrifying encounter with an unidentified flying object left one forestry worker shaken and covered in bruises.
Astronomers have detected the signature of vaporized water in the coma of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov, also known as C/2019 Q4.
For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, the start of autumn means a few things: chillier days, longer nights, and lots of shooting stars.
The pilot who once flew Senator Barack Obama had a surreal experience with an unidentified flying object.
The journey of NASA’s dauntless Voyager 2 spacecraft through our solar system’s farthest reaches has given scientists new insight into a poorly understood distant frontier: the unexpectedly distinct boundary marking where the sun’s energetic influence ends and interstellar space begins.
A beloved 1-ton boulder in one of Arizona’s national forests has “magically” returned after visitors reported it missing last month.
New research aims to open the ‘black box’ of computer vision
Generally speaking, black holes are the corpse of a dead star. But not all stars become black holes at the end of their life – for instance, our familiar Sun is small enough to avoid that fate.
