Astronomers discover an unusual neutron star that emits double pulses, challenging theories about stellar remnants.

The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...

Private citizens and companies may one day begin to permanently settle outer space and celestial bodies. But if we don’t ...

The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.

The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...

As more space junk is falling to Earth uncontrolled, scientists are using seismometers to track the debris.

Just as we are reckoning with how to conserve ecosystems on Earth for future living creatures, we must think of space as an ...

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.

Mounted on a robotic arm attached to a 33-m long rail, a camera system is brought closer and closer to this scale-model ...