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) ...

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.

One of the studies, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, shows that ice inside the parent asteroid melted and reacted with dust, forming the minerals that now make up about 80% of Bennu. Certain ...

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

3I/ATLAS is a roughly 7-mile-wide (11 kilometers) comet that was first spotted in early July and is zooming toward us from beyond the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars ... visitors can leave a ...

New research from NASA has found that the dwarf planet Ceres may be another place to look for evidence of primitive life in our solar system.