The record-breaking event is providing insight into how these strange objects form.

The first fast radio burst, or FRB, was discovered in 2007 in archival data collected back in 2001, and scientists were ...

Space is full of weird objects that don’t make sense according to what scientists thought they knew about the universe, […] ...

In a bizarre gamma-ray space explosion whose light reached Earth in 2023, a team led by astronomer Run-Chao Chen of Nanjing ...

Our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at ...

A mysterious "rogue" planet has been observed gobbling six billion tons of gas and dust a second—an unprecedented rate that ...

You’ll see some irregular galaxies that look like nothing, and some barred spirals that look like everything. Along the way, ...

Scientists using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope now think the "little red dots" in the early universe could be a new space object.

We don't really know, but probably some truly bizarre physics. Neutron stars are some of the weirdest cosmic objects, and the greatest mysteries lie deep in their hearts. Neutron stars are the ...

Astronomers found that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows an "extreme abundance ratio" of nickel and iron in its gas plume.

Astronomers have discovered a strange new object in our Milky Way galaxy.An international team reported Wednesday that this celestial object — perhaps a star, pair of stars or something else entirely ...

People think they've found Martian images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS on NASA's website. They might be right.