Maisie is the name of the discoverer's young daughter. He found the galaxy on her ninth birthday. The list goes on. Tons of cosmic objects have this business-in-the-front-party-in-the-back duality ...

“These mysterious objects are candidate galaxies in the early universe, meaning they could be very early galaxies,” said ...

Nicknames are often more approachable and public-friendly than official names for cosmic objects, such as Barnard 33, whose nickname “the Horsehead Nebula” invokes its appearance.

"We should put all possibilities on the table that it's a rock, a comet, or something else until we get the evidence, the ...

That 500-foot-wide (150 meters) space rock is one of our planet's quasi-moons — a temporary companion that's orbiting the sun in a path similar to that of Earth. 2004 GU9 will likely be with us ...

The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely not an asteroid, but wasn't any sort of space object at all. Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster.

After years of silence, it released another object called “Object C,” which began drifting closer to an American spy satellite, USA 326. To observers, this wasn’t just a coincidence.