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

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 ...

Astronomers have uncovered new details about an extraordinary object hurtling through thesolar system. A comet with ...

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

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be chemically active.

The moon and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye that morning, but skywatchers will need a telescope to see the “far ...

A groundbreaking discovery was recently made about the largest comet ever observed hurtling toward the sun from the Oort Cloud in the outer reaches of our solar system. Astronomers recently got a ...

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar system.

Recent observations have revealed carbon monoxide venting from the largest comet ever seen, providing clues about its origins ...

Skies over South Carolina kick off 2025 with a planet parade, ancient comet and the muse of "Beyond Antares," a 23rd-century love song from "Star Trek" fame.

By contrast, Neptune’s orbit around the sun takes about 165 years, while Pluto travels around the sun about once every 248 years. But this comet may actually never come back around again.

Solar systems mostly keep to themselves. What’s ours is ours and what’s not is not. Stars are simply too far from each ...