The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

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

"Ice in the rest of the universe has long been considered a snapshot of liquid water – that is, a disordered arrangement fixed in place. Our findings show this is not entirely true." ...

Scientists found low-density amorphous ice in space isn’t fully random - it hides tiny crystals, reshaping our understanding ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

Scientists from UCL and the University of Cambridge have revealed that "space ice"—long thought to be completely ...

The work confirms the theory that the pressure applied by heavy ice makes it harder for magma to reach the surface, instead ...

Besides a very good dog named Krypto, James Gunn’s “Superman” gives us a five-star Lois Lane thanks to Rachel Brosnahan.

The idea of an alien invasion has captured our imaginations for decades, with countless science fiction stories depicting extraterrestrial civilizations invading Earth for resources, slaves, or ...

Hopkins and Lintott are two of the six authors of a new paper that uses the new model to trace the origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS, and it appears to be coming from a completely different region of the ...