However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Plus, with Saturn making its return to the night sky next week after spending the last few months as a 'morning star', the ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

The Keck Observatory and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope may have uncovered a "potential three-body system in the Kuiper Belt," ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

Astronomers have discovered a new interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, which is believed to be the oldest comet ever observed. The comet is estimated to be around 7 billion years old.

Earth objects, astronomers recently discovered a comet visiting from interstellar space. This is only the third interstellar ...

The presence of apparent biological signatures on Venus has left UK-based researchers chasing down bacterial life in the ...

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

As 3I/ATLAS approaches the sun, astronomers expect its frozen ices to sublimate, releasing gas and forming a glowing coma and ...