Given the mounting number of objects in orbit, this is likely to be a more regular occurrence. It's costly in terms of damage ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer space ...

A huge, red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon according to local residents cited by the country’s national broadcaster, prompting an immediate investigation by the ...

It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring of metal” that fell from the sky and crashed near a remote village in Kenya. According to the Kenya Space Agency, the ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has made a significant discovery on Mars: a meteorite, which could provide vital clues about the ...

The sky is becoming increasingly crowded with manmade objects -- and what goes up eventually comes down. VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Talk about a potentially explosive issue. The ...

Scientists have captured the first direct images of colliding objects in a neighboring star system. Astronomers have seen the ...

A database of objects launched by the United States into space is expected to be launched soon, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information, a division of the National Oceanic and ...

For a decade and a half, astronomers have been on the trail of a galactic mystery. In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — ...

Hubble images from December 2025 show interstellar object 3I/ATLAS releasing two narrow jets of material as it moves away from the Sun, raising questions about rotation and activity ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Wayne N White Jr consults with One Space Technologies ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS continues to display a Sun-facing anti-tail, confirmed by Hubble, Gemini and XMM-Newton observations, with explanations involving ice fragments and trailing objects.