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

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 ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...

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 ...

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

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.

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

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

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe, ...