What happens when a comet collides with a gas giant? In July 1994, Shoemaker-Levy 9 slammed into Jupiter in a spectacular ...

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

NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian ...

The comet was discovered by the NASA -funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope in Chile ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...

Astronomers are meticulously tracking the new interstellar visitor that is crossing our solar system. Officially designated ...