Objects

The U.S. military abandoned its search for the two mysterious airborne objects downed within U.S. airspace roughly one week ago, having found no debris, U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and North American Aerospace Defense Command…

by Madeleine Hubbard   U.S. fighter jets shot down two objects believed to be surveillance balloons over the weekend, according to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other U.S. officials on Sunday. Schumer, a New York…

The sun is one of the top 10 space objects to see during the day. Image via EarthSky Facebook friend Janet Furlong. What are the top 10 space objects to see during the day? Some are easy, others are more challenging. Here is our list of…

The skills astronomers learn in critical thinking, computation, and statistical analysis have many applications outside academia, such as creating articles to submit to the prestigious (and fictitious)…

A mysterious, repeating radio signal in the Milky Way that baffled astronomers could be an object so rare, only one other has ever been tentatively identified.According to a paper by astrophysicist Jonathan Katz of Washington University…

A pair of asteroids orbiting the Sun formed less than 300 years ago, a new study has revealed.This makes them the youngest pair of asteroids ever discovered in the Solar System, by a factor of 10. The discovery could tell us more about…

Interstellar space is a graveyard of lost souls. Adrift far from any star, these planets float in the darkness like ghost ships in the night.Catching sight of one requires patience, and a good eye. But a new approach based on tens of…

In October 19th, 2017, the first interstellar object ever detected flew past Earth on its way out of the Solar System. Less than two years later, a second object was detected, an easily-identified interstellar comet designated as…

 Scientists suggest that a counter-intuitive, hypothetical species of black holes may negate the standard model of cosmology,where dark energy is an inherent and constant property of spacetime that will result in an eventual cold death…