When artist Alex Foster drew this solar system object on a poster for kids, he misread the temporary name 2002 VE as Zoozve, thus coining this original, odd, and memorable name." It was a long shot.

Then, the object released extremely bright pulses of radio waves in February 2024. Fewer than 30 known objects in the sky have ever reached such brightness in radio waves, Wang said.

But not every cosmic object has such a fairytale ending, nomenclature-wise. Someone recently tried to name one of Earth's quasi-moons "Moony McMoonface," and, ironically, the lore behind that is ...

The space station launched in 1973 and was operational until 1979 when it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere. It was a public spectacle with people betting on where it would land.

This artist's depiction of J0529-4351's supermassive black hole reveals what the space around this record-breaking object might look like. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser ...

Primitive ices and gas from the earliest days of the solar system can remain trapped inside deep-space objects like comets and Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) for billions of years. That’s the ...

The more objects launched into outer space, the more of them will return to Earth. Indeed, they will all eventually enter the atmosphere and not all of them will burn up in the process.

🤘 Space metal lands on Earth 🌍 The first ever metal part 3D-printed on orbit is here 🛰️🔧 Made on the @Space_Station in @esa ’s Metal 3D Printer - built by @AirbusSpace & installed ...