One of the brightest objects in the night sky isn’t a star or a planet — it’s a communications satellite. The BlueWalker 3 satellite, launched in September 2022, is now the eighth-brightest object in ...

A new study analyzing historical photographs taken by the Palomar Observatory between 1949 and 1957 has detected several mysterious bright spots in the sky. These transient objects, captured on film ...

(WFSB) - Viewers spotted a mystery object that appeared in the sky over Connecticut on Tuesday night. Channel 3 viewers sent in photos of it through social media. Viewers reported that the photos were ...

Historical observations from an observatory in Germany have now independently verified evidence for brief, mysterious flashes of light in the night sky, first picked up by an American astronomical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1408, Chinese astronomers and court officials observed an especially bright object in the sky that appeared for about ten days, ...

The BlueWalker 3 satellite can basically turn a mobile phone into a satellite phone. Light pollution is a big side effect. The BlueWalker 3 satellite can basically turn a mobile phone into a satellite ...

A prototype satellite has become one of the brightest objects in the night sky, and it may soon be accompanied by dozens more. An observation campaign tracking the BlueWalker 3 satellite, launched in ...

A new study published in Nature Astronomy describes the most luminous object ever observed by astronomers. It is a black hole with a mass of 17 billion Suns, swallowing a greater amount of mass than ...

Sept. 14 (UPI) --Police in an Illinois town are trying to identify a mysterious white or translucent object seen flying in the daytime sky. Prophetstown Police Chief Bruce Franks said he was off-duty ...

A strange object in the sky Wednesday afternoon over a wood debris storage area on Old Mill Road caused a Lufkin man and his wife to call local authorities asking for answers. "It didn't look like no ...

What a CBS4 viewer saw flying recently above his Southern Marion County home and neighborhood concerned him. He can be heard saying, “That is scary,” on video he provided to CBS4. It shows a lighted ...