SCIENTISTS have discovered three never-before-seen celestial bodies circling Neptune and Uranus. The objects are all moons and they were found using a special imaging technique. You'll now receive top ...

Ever since we began peering into the sky with more powerful telescopes, one lesson has been repeated countless times: the universe is full of surprises. This is because each technological advancement, ...

If you saw the 2013 Sandra Bullock-George Clooney science-fiction movie Gravity, then you know about the silent but deadly damage that even a small object can do if it hits something like the Hubble ...

A distant object named Buffy has been spotted circling the sun far beyond Neptune in a strange tilted orbit that is making some astronomers question how the outer reaches of the solar system formed.

As our telescopes grow more powerful, astronomers are uncovering objects that defy conventional wisdom. The latest example is the discovery of a planet-like object circling a brown dwarf. It's the ...

Billionaires Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson flew into space. Or did they? There are different definitions of where space starts. Certainly, all include objects that make it into orbit. The U.S.