The recent hullabaloo started when an amateur astronomer from Turkey reported a small, previously unidentified near-Earth object from 2018 data. The object wasn’t listed in sat_id, nor did it ...

Tusay is a graduate researcher at Penn State University and its Extraterrestrial Intelligence Center, and teamed up with astronomers across the U.S. to look for narrowband radio transmissions ...

And yes, that makes it the only one of more-than 37,000 known large space rocks near Earth with such odds. But astronomers who are keeping a close eye on the asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, expect that the ...

Credit: ESO/L. Calçada When astronomers first spotted WASP-127b in 2016, the exoplanet's strange composition intrigued them. With a radius larger than Jupiter's but less than a fifth of the ...

An upgrade to one of Australia's most capable radio telescopes is allowing astronomers to hunt for fast radio bursts (FRBs) at 10 times their typical efficiency. By sifting through billions of ...

“Most likely this one will pass by harmlessly,” Colin Snodgrass, an astronomer at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, tells the Guardian’s Ian Sample. “It just deserves a little more ...

The recent burst, called FRB 20240209A, throws that theory into question. Now, astronomers must consider that not all fast radio bursts come from younger galaxies and stars. The powerful burst was ...

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its driver "Starman," which were launched into space in 2018 ...

Don’t panic. Just after Christmas Day, astronomers spotted something zipping away from Earth: a rock somewhere between 130 feet and 330 feet long that they named 2024 YR4. Over the next few ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered distant, overly massive supermassive black holes in the early universe. The black holes seem way too massive compared to ...

But so did the fact that the astronomers who built the observatory were all amateurs, men with day jobs who just loved to stargaze and tinker. "It's probably one of the most compelling ...

Astronomers first spotted the asteroid on August 7 using the South Africa-based observatory of the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Despite predictions that the ...