Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

The scientific and cultural impact of 3I/ATLAS over the coming months and years will serve as an exemplar of what astronomy ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but. The object’s trajectory revealed it to be a much rarer visitor than first ...

The collisions will happen under enough heat and pressure to melt protons and neutrons and release their components (quarks ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

University of Arizona astrophysicist Erika Hamden takes readers on a romp through a "Weird Universe" in her debut popular ...

Scientists are on the trail of a mysterious five-particle structure that could challenge one of the biggest theories in ...

NASA’s SPHEREx mission is mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared colors, turning raw space data into a public tool for ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected. You can stream the object live today, or maybe see it from your ...