"These nine objects are special." ...

Deep space has just delivered a cosmic curveball: an object that behaves so strangely it appears to break the rules ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object nicknamed Cloud 9, located about 14 million light-years from Earth near the outer edges of the spiral ...

Astronomers have identified a strange new object in deep space, a vast cloud that looks like a galaxy stripped of its stars.

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

Despite its unmemorable name, J2322-2650 is a strange system. A Jupiter-sized exoplanet orbits an energetic neutron star, which constantly bombards it with gamma rays. Now, a team of astronomers has ...

In a universe where change usually unfolds over eons, astronomers have gotten a rare front-row seat to watch a small, icy world beyond Saturn build a brand-new set of rings in real time. A team of ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" spotted in the early universe could be a new kind of space object. They call it a "black hole star." Credit: T.