Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

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

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

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

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

3I/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1, is a comet from interstellar space, meaning it originated in another star system and ...

A NASA-funded telescope in Chile identified a comet from interstellar space on July 1, marking a significant astronomical ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

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 ...

Watch how Comet C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) met its demise after traveling close to the sun. Imagers aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured the its fateful dive.

United Launch Alliance (ULA) is set to launch the second group of Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites into orbit aboard its Atlas V rocket. The launch is set for June 16 at 1:25 p.m.