The object is called 2025 PN7, and it was spotted on Aug. 2, 2025, by the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. Even though it was just discovered, earlier data shows it's been in this unusual orbit for ...

On November 3, 1957, a Soviet space dog named Laika became the first animal to orbit Earth. Laika was a 3-year-old stray ...

Oct. 20 (UPI) --A rare encounter of two comets this week will have stargazers in awe after nearly a year of no easily seen comets. Two comets C/2025 A4, nicknamed "Lemmon" and its counterpart C/2025 ...

Update for Oct. 21: Due to cloudy weather, this livestream was rescheduled for Oct. 24, beginning at 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 GMT). Two comets, C/2025 A4 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN), are about to reach ...

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance to the moon. The asteroid, called 2025 TP5, sailed by our planet at 4:09 p.m ...

Oct. 14 (UPI) --Aerospace startup company K2 Space will team up with SpaceX to deploy a small number of K2 satellites into multiple levels of Earth's orbit. On Tuesday, California-based K2 Space ...

The Earth has a second moon? Not exactly, though social media would have you believe it. Earth has only one true natural satellite – our 2,159-mile-wide moon located approximately 239,000 miles away.

GEORGETOWN— Well-behaved, leashed dogs have always been welcome at the annual Georgetown Wooden Boat Show. But in 2023, event organizers realized a procession of pooches could be an event on its own.

On Saturday, a huge chunk of what is almost certainly space junk was found lying in the middle of a desert road in Western Australia, according to the Australian Space Agency. Its exact origins aren’t ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon last year, made a fascinating discovery. While poring over the returned lunar samples, which arrived on Earth in ...

A municipal court judge in Franklin County will decide whether to return a dog and her puppies seized by law enforcement to their owner's girlfriend after two of their other pit bulls mauled a boy ...

This intriguing astronaut photo shows a pair of islands in the murky green waters of a major African lake. Both landmasses are home to monasteries that hold important religious relics, including the ...