The Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) is a small satellite already orbiting Earth. IBEX has special instruments gathering ...

The universe is full of unknown celestial objects, and scientists have only begun to scratch the surface of understanding ...

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

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers say they've spotted an object in our solar system that's believed to be from another ...

The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the ...

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

The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

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

Based on the comet's brightness and current distance — it's located just inside Jupiter's orbit — scientists estimate its ...