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A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to search data from a NASA space telescope for objects such as black holes.

Humanity’s ventures into space have brought incredible advancements, but they’ve also left behind a growing problem — space ...

The area surrounding Earth, once a vast and empty expanse, has become increasingly congested with human-made objects. From ...

Learn about the ongoing mystery of 300 bright objects discovered in deep space, some of which may be galaxies that formed in the early universe. Jack Knudson is an assistant editor for Discover ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists analyzed far-away bodies -- known as Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) -- and found varying traces of methanol. The discoveries are helping them ...

The discovery could challenge current ideas about how galaxies formed in the early universe. Hundreds of unexpectedly energetic objects have been discovered throughout the distant universe, possibly ...

Offering hope for future space colonisation, the first ever 3D-printed object in space has been created aboard the International Space Station (ISS) following the printer’s installment last week. US ...

From gravel-size meteoroids to mountain-size asteroids and even visitors from other star systems, space is packed with curiosities that help scientists decode how the Solar System formed and where it ...