Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...

Scientists have been studying an interstellar object that's currently moving through our solar system which was first spotted on 1 July. It has been called 3I/ATLAS because of what spotted it, and ...

A mystery interstellar object has been identified as the "oldest comet ever seen", according to scientists. The Oxford ...

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

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

On July 1, scientists discovered a mysterious object hurtling through our solar system.  Nicknamed 3I/ATLAS, astronomers say ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

The object is big – possibly as wide 12 miles, larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs – and is speeding ...

As 3I/ATLAS approaches the sun, astronomers expect its frozen ices to sublimate, releasing gas and forming a glowing coma and ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.