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

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

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

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 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.

"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 ...

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

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

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 ...