A space reconnaissance mission has returned unprecedented imagery of a metal hunk zooming around Earth. The discarded three-ton rocket, a robust piece of space junk some 36 feet (11 meters) long, is ...

The Black Knight Satellite and the Unanswered Questions in Earth’s Orbit ...

For generations, UFO enthusiasts have longed for claims of aliens visiting Earth to be seriously investigated by scientists. Now they are getting their wish. This month prominent peer-reviewed ...

Astronomy has reached a historic milestone with the first direct observation of a pair of black holes orbiting each other. This landmark discovery finally provides tangible visual evidence of the ...

Kosmos 482 is 3.2 feet across and could make impact at about 150 mph, per one expert Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in ...

Astronomy is the study of stars, planets and the vast space beyond Earth. Every so often, scientists spot an event so unusual that it challenges what we think we know about the universe. Among such ...

Sweeping winds of vaporized metals have been found in a massive cloud that dimmed the light of a star for nearly nine months. This discovery, made with the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of ...

Analysis of the wind speed and direction revealed that the cloud is moving at a different speed from its host star, confirming that it is bound to an external secondary object.

Astronomers using the Gemini South telescope achieve unprecedented detection of vaporized metals within a dusty, gaseous cloud during rare stellar occultation. (Nanowerk News) Sweeping winds of ...