The month of October is a treat for stargazers, as they’ll be able to see two different comets, one of which is long-tailed, ...

It could mean two bright comets will be visible in the night sky at the same time, on the peak night of a meteor shower. Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN), or SWAN R2 for short, was discovered on Sept. 12 by ...

Recently, in a “wild” new spin on the theory, known as directed panspermia, it’s been suggested that “aliens sent microbes or simple life forms” to Earth themselves, to “propel evolution”, said the ...

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is fast racing towards the inner solar system. It now has a cometary tail and a bright coma.

When most people imagine the vastness of space, they picture a dark void with plenty of observable objects. Planets, stars, and other galaxies often come to mind when picturing what space actually ...

Astronomers have obtained new images of the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS that reveal a new feature: the fastest ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf ...

Pfalzner's models show that interstellar objects — bodies ejected from other star systems — could be captured by these planet ...

When considering the unnamed major features of all the moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system, there are still a ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...