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 ...

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 ...

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

Astronomers have taken a huge leap towards discovering habitable worlds, and the world now eagerly anticipates a rocky planet ...

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

A fireball over France revealed a tougher kind of asteroid, named 2023 CX1, raising new concerns about how small impacts can ...

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

The latest images of comet 3I/ATLAS are in, delivering a glorious view of the interstellar object's burgeoning tail, courtesy ...

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.

The period known as "cosmic noon," which took place roughly 2 to 3 billion years after the Big Bang, was characterized by the rapid formation of new stars and planetary systems. Naturally, objects ...

When 1I/'Oumuamua was first spotted in 2017, astronomers quickly determined that it came from outside the solar system. But ...

3I/ATLAS is a roughly 7-mile-wide (11 kilometers) comet that was first spotted in early July and is zooming toward us from ...