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: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of astronomers are, in a manner of speaking, on cloud nine after discovering a never-before-seen astronomical object in the ...

Astronomers have spotted a variety of weirdly blinking phenomena out there in the big wide Milky Way through history, but a newly discovered pulsating object truly appears to be one of a kind. Located ...