Reports recently emerged stating that NASA astronomers have tracked what they deem to be the fastest project ever spotted. The object was travelling at a rapid pace of 283 miles per second, absolutely ...

Robert Brownlee was on the Operation Plumbbob team that launched an object in space before Sputnik. They put a manhole cover above a nuke underground, and the explosion shot the iron cap into space.

Astronomers have characterized a bright quasar, finding it to be not only the brightest of its kind, but also the most luminous object ever observed. Quasars are the bright cores of distant galaxies ...