The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system.

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the public and even most of our deep space assets. Its hyperbolic orbit tells us ...

A telescope in Chile recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS' glowing tail, which observations reveal has grown as the interstellar object ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

This quiz invites you to chase comets through time and space, from ancient omens to modern scientific marvels.

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

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from outside the Solar System, might have been spewing gases for months ...

The Adirondack Bank Center at the Utica Memorial Auditorium is gearing up for the upcoming hockey season as ice installation ...

Asteroids, comets, and meteors differ in origin and behavior—remnants of our Solar System that sometimes create dazzling sights in Earth’s skies.

According to Dean Duffy, the new NASA administrator, a rock sample collected by the Perseverance rover was the "clearest sign ...

Astrophysicist Avi Loeb, the former chairman of Harvard's Department of Astronomy and current head of Harvard's Galileo Project, which searches for ...

Do we know what space actually smells like? And what about other planets, moons, and celestial bodies? Here's what the ...