The Gaia telescope aimed to create an accurate and detailed 3D map of billions of stars in our galaxy. Its findings have flipped astronomers' understanding of the Milky Way on its head and have led to ...

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A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space.

Shelby Dozier, a 34-year-old man from New York City, pleaded guilty to theft of mail by a postal service employee.

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

By Deane Morrison    In February, the iconic winter stars and constellations reach their prime positions for viewing. On the ...

An asteroid that orbited near Earth for a few months as a mini-moon may be a chunk of the moon that was blasted off by an impact thousands of years ago.

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Astronomers have traced two mysterious fast radio bursts from space to wildly different places, which suggests the phenomenon ...

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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — For the first time, astronomers have taken a direct look at an exoplanet’s insides. An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new ...

Dead stars — or neutron stars — normally spin at breakneck speeds, but a team of astronomers has clocked the new-found star taking a leisurely six-and-a-half hours to undertake just one spin ...