The comet, officially detected on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System)telescope in Chile, has been confirmed to be travelling on a hyperbolic trajectory, meaning ...

Learn what makes Comet 3I/Atlas, the third interstellar object ever observed entering into our solar system, so significant ...

Astronomers are tracking 3I/Atlas, a mysterious interstellar object traveling against the normal planetary flow of our solar system. This rare cosmic visitor is puzzling scientists with its unusual ...

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Having made its closest approach to the sun on Wednesday October 29, comet 3I/ATLAS will soon be visible from Earth ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three dimensions.

The European Space Agency says it’s tracked “a visitor from beyond the void.” “Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a rare celestial visitor: a comet from beyond our solar system,” the space ...

NASA has revealed a fabulous new collection of simulated sunsets, allowing us to see what the view would be like from the surface of another world. When scientists make plans for a new space mission, ...

It is a question that feels like it should have a straightforward answer: how many planets are there in our solar system? Since Pluto was relegated back down to dwarf planet status, almost everyone ...

With New Horizons' flyby of Pluto, spacecraft launched by humans have now visited the nine biggest planets (dwarf or otherwise) orbiting the sun. Publications such as the New York Times have called ...

On August 25, 2012, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft measured drastic changes in radiation levels, more than 11 billion miles from the Sun. Anomalous cosmic rays, which are cosmic rays trapped in the outer ...