Mysterious ‘space balls’ twice the size of basketballs wash ashore on Australian beach, scientists say the discovery is more common than many people think

Strange Spheres Washed Ashore on an Australian Beach. Authorities Say They’re Probably ‘Space Balls’ What began as an ordinary day in a small Australian beach town turned into an unusual investigation after six large metallic spheres washed ashore. The discovery forced residents to evacuate and raised fears that the objects could be dangerous.The shiny objects […]

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detects methane hidden deep inside interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with unusual carbon dioxide abundance |

The view coming back from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has a way of turning familiar categories of comet science slightly awkward. 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object only briefly passing through the solar system, has been watched before, but this time the reading feels less like a routine update and more like a chemical surprise that […]

NASA’s James Webb Telescope found a Saturn-sized planet with Earth-like temperatures and a methane-rich atmosphere |

Somewhere between the scorching extremes of hot Jupiters and the frozen depths of gas giants like Saturn lies a planet that astronomers have spent years looking for and struggling to study: a temperate giant, large enough to qualify as a gas world but sitting in a temperature range that, by the standards of the universe, […]