Space-watchers, hold on to your telescopes. The interstellar visitor we’ve all been buzzing about just threw a curveball.

Just after sunset, Saturn hangs in the southern sky, a warm, steady point of light that’s easy to spot even from the backyard. Later tonight, Jupiter rises in the east and becomes the brightest object ...

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Astronomers believe they've discovered some of the universe's earliest stars, located about 13 billion light-years from Earth ...

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Recent scientific breakthroughs are making concepts once confined to science fiction, like time travel, seem tantalizingly ...

NASA officials reacted strongly against allegations that federal employees were called back to work to dismantle laboratories ...

Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth after they were briefly stranded at the nation's space station when space ...

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Hubble’s new detection shows a planet circling a star in one of the most unlikely environments ever recorded. The readings ...