Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as an interstellar ...

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope and Canada France Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea discovered a “fossil” of our early ...

The issue concerns sunlight reflecting off the satellites’ surfaces. SpaceX has attempted to reduce the brightness of the ...

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

On July 1, astronomers spotted an unusual high-speed object zooming towards the sun. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the surprising space ...

3I/ATLAS is most certainly a comet, like 2I/Borisov. Currently just within the orbit of Jupiter, it is already being heated enough by the Sun's rays that a coma of gases has developed around the ...

Comet 31/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object, may be 7 billion years old and could reveal secrets about the early Milky Way and ...

The Deltas will fly out of the southern sky. Given the relatively low altitude of the radiant from the Northland, and ...

The telescope in Chile caught this comet. Most known comets orbit the sun and are bound by the gravity of our solar system. But this object came from far beyond the pull of our Sun, traveling 137,000 ...

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is recognized for its relatively bright appearance when it nears Earth. Its orbit brings it into proximity with our planet approximately every 71 years, which is the periodic ...

The devil comet may have been millions of miles away at its closest pass-by of Earth, but it and other comets can orbit close to our planet for a reason. First, it's helpful to understand where ...