Cold War-era junk dominates the list of hazardous orbiting objects. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The space around our planet ...

Astronomers have discovered a brand new type of object in our solar system: an active binary asteroid. That means the object, named Body 288P, is the first known hybrid of two rare types of asteroid: ...

Do you remember the first time you truly discovered the universe? When I was a teenager, many moons ago, I bought my first telescope, a Celestron 8. I remember excitedly unboxing it the day it arrived ...