The astronomical community is abuzz over a newly discovered "interstellar object," only the third of its kind ever seen, ...

The object, a celestial body from another star system, was discovered on Tuesday by the University of Hawaii’s Asteroid ...

I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected. You can stream the object live today, or maybe see it from your ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

World Asteroid Day is observed every year on June 30 to raise awareness about asteroids and the potential hazards they pose ...

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The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

The harmless object is currently near Jupiter, millions of kilometers, away and moving toward Mars, but it should get no ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Jupiter is already the biggest planet by far in our solar system, but new research suggests it was somehow once even larger than it is now. Twice as large, in fact. To put that into context, those ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...