When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

A newly discovered interstellar comet is hurtling around us, only the third interloper object to be observed in our solar system. It is not expected to pose an impact risk to Earth, but telescopes ...

What makes 3I/ATLAS especially intriguing is that the comet might be three billion years older than our entire Solar System.

The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured a video of Comet 3I/ATLAS zipping through space during its testing phase. - RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF / DOE / X screenshot A new telescope built to to ...

According to NASA, today (3 October) is actually the day when it's going to come 'closest' to Mars, though closest in this case is still 18.6 million miles, which is a really long way.

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object currently zipping through the solar system, is capturing the attention of astronomers, the ...

3I/ATLAS is named for its status as one of three interstellar objects ever discovered in our cosmic neighborhood, as well as ...

The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Mars Express took photos of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it ...

Spirals of solar wind can spin off larger solar eruptions and disrupt Earth's magnetic field, yet they are too difficult to ...

A large number of spacecraft have been sent to space over the years to study the star in our solar system, but they all tended to follow the same recipe: they lined up in orbit around the Sun within a ...

The comets A6 (Lemmon) and R2 (SWAN) are visitors from the chilly fringes of our solar system, and could even be visible at ...