The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely not an asteroid, but wasn't any sort of space object at all. Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster.

Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.

Webb has been orbiting more than a million miles from Earth, capturing breathtaking images of deep space. But how does it ...

Betelgeuse needs no introduction. Besides having its name borrowed by the ghost with the most, this 10-million-year-old red ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

To edit images of deep space objects — which bear Tolkien-esque names such as Eye of God, the Wizard Nebula and Thor’s Helmet — Scheben uses tools including an Intel i7 processor with 32 ...

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to look into the Flame Nebula, and found free-floating objects called brown dwarfs, which are larger than Jupiter but too small to become stars.

The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely not an asteroid, but wasn't any sort of space object at all. Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster.

Interest, and sometimes urgency, in understanding and tracking deep-space objects stems from a desire to fundamentally understand the workings of the cosmos as well as helping policymakers and ...

Interest, and sometimes urgency, in understanding and tracking deep-space objects stems from a desire to fundamentally understand the workings of the cosmos as well as helping policymakers and ...