An object spotted with help of citizen scientists was moving so fast through the Milky Way that it could escape the gravity of the galaxy and reach intergalactic space, new research has found. Likely ...

When an object in space appears to be racing at nineteen times the speed of sound, it instantly jumps from routine data point to global headline. The claim that NASA tracked such a hyperfast visitor ...

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Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This image from the experiment shows a sphere seemingly moving at 99.9 ...

An object inside our galaxy is moving so fast that it is on track to break free of the Milky Way altogether, racing through space at roughly 1 million miles per hour. The discovery, made with help ...

Relax. It’s not an alien spacecraft or anything that could potentially slam into planet Earth. Even so, NASA scientists are over the moon about the recent discovery of A/2017 U1, an asteroid or comet ...