Space is filled with weird and wonderful things, ranging from gigantic supermassive black holes to planets where it rains diamonds. Sometimes, however, we spot things out in the abyss that look ...

Around midday on June 13 last year, my colleagues and I were scanning the skies when we thought we had discovered a strange ...

Some were lost during missions, others deliberately dumped, all of them now part of the growing problem of space debris.

In space, direct sunlight can reach around 150 degrees so, quickly, the cable heated up. "This warmed up the metal just enough that it started to expand," said Mr Kellond-Turner.

Astronomers are still discovering strange things in space, and the latest is something they’ve named the Radcliffe Wave. This wave-shaped chain of star-forming clouds is the largest coherent ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever before into the heart of the supermassive black hole-powered quasar 3C, 273 spotting "weird" structures.

During the recent total solar eclipse on April 8, scientists and other observers spotted some strange things in the sky and on the ground. Here are some of our favorites.

Eclipses can be strange. Here are some of the weird things you can expect to experience during the April 8 total eclipse. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Few things in space are simply black and white — but this bizarre rock certainly is. NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover discovered a strange black-and-white rock unlike anything seen on Mars ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. What does it take to launch into space ...