“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

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

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

"Eight minutes later, the orbiter started receiving data from the descent probe, which slammed into the top of the Jovian atmosphere at a comet-like speed of 170,000 kilometers per hour," NASA ...

Image of comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 taken in red light on a collision course with Jupiter. Its train of 21 icy fragments stretched across 710 thousand miles (1.1 million km) of space, or 3 times the ...

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

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

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

Astronomers investigate a potential impact on Saturn after a bright flash was caught on camera. NASA image may show first ...

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

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet Center of comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025.

NASA has identified an interstellar comet, named 3I/ATLAS, hurtling towards us at 200,000 km/h. It should be visible by telescopes through September and reappear in December.