“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

NASA’s New Horizons mission changed our understanding of the outer solar system. After its famous Pluto flyby, it traveled ...

NASA says: 'While the researchers have ideas about what is happening, the identity of the object being blasted is a mystery because it is too distant for its details to be seen, even in images ...

But NASA’s top asteroid expert ... Reddy used an infrared telescope in Hawaii to observe not only the mystery object, but — just on Tuesday — a Centaur from 1971 still orbiting Earth.

A small near-Earth object captured the world's attention last year after a NASA-funded telescope discovered it lingering close to our planet. The object never orbited Earth but it stayed close for ...

Mars is a famously red object ... of a mystery. “This may be because, as it orbits within Jupiter’s powerful magnetic field, electric currents are induced in the moon’s core,” NASA said.

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to ... However, upcoming gravitational wave observatories like NASA's space-based detector LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna ...

A question many have asked is about the trajectory of such a truly intergalactic object. The genesis of CWISE J1249 story starts in a Nasa citizen science initiative called Backyard Worlds: Planet 9.

Former NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao says he had a baffling ... As the New York Post points out, the object visible in the footage roughly aligns with Chiao's own description. "That’s what it ...

Now, new observations made using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have deepened the mystery surrounding the turquoise objects. They could be dense gas clouds or a ...

Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...