Astronomers are racing to study 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet whose strange behavior reveals new clues about how other ...

A long-tailed comet has been spotted close to the sun, and some astronomers are predicting it could be seen with the naked ...

A strange flash on Saturn earlier this summer caught the attention of astronomers and sparked speculation about a possible ...

NASA scientists have firmly rejected claims by Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb that the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas may be a ...

In the vast solar system, if one were to select a 'behind-the-scenes hero' whose impact on Earth is profound yet often overlooked, Jupiter would undoubtedly be the strongest candidate. This giant ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third ISO ever detected. It was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...

A rare interstellar object, Comet 3I/Atlas, is hurtling through our solar system, igniting a scientific debate about its ...

Right now a comet is hurtling through our solar system at more than 137,000 miles per hour. But it is not just this interstellar object’s speed that has earthly astronomers glued to their telescopes.

For a long time, Jupiter had always been in my mind as that 'gas ball' composed of hydrogen and helium from documentaries. My imagination made me think that any celestial body could easily penetrate ...

This bodes well for astronomers keen to see the emergence of long, well-defined cometary tails as 3I/ATLAS shimmies towards ...

As the nights grow chillier, there is still time for Colorado stargazers to observe a meteor shower and other celestial ...

Three comets (C/1618 Q1, C/1618 V1, and C/1618 W1) were observed in 1618, all visible to the naked eye. C/1618 Q1, first observed in August over Hungary, marks the first known telescopic observation ...