Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a curious new object started flashing across the message boards.

A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual, hyperbolic trajectory. If ...

An object thought to have come from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to ...

What we already know, however, is that it has a much more extreme orbit than the two previous examples, 'Oumuamua and Borisov ...

A11pI3Z: Astronomers believe fast-moving object A11pI3Z could be only the third known interstellar visitor, after 'Oumuamua ...

Memorizing all of the past Wordle answers is nearly impossible – after all, there have now been more than 1,400 of them. But knowing what's gone before is important, because Wordle answers don't ...