Any suggestion that it’s artificial is nonsense on stilts, and is an insult to the exciting work going on to understand this object, University of Oxford astronomer Chris Lintott stated, as there was ...

To scientists, asteroids are cosmic time capsules. They’ve remained mostly unchanged since the solar system’s birth, making them perfect subjects for understanding how planets—and even life—came to be ...

Hubble’s crystal-clear look at NGC 1786—an ancient globular cluster tucked inside the Large Magellanic Cloud—pulls us 160,000 light-years from Earth and straight into a cosmic time machine. Packed ...