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

New research suggests that the makeup of space ice might be quite a bit different than we previously believed.

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever encountered.

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

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 ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

Earth objects, astronomers recently discovered a comet visiting from interstellar space. This is only the third interstellar ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

The discovery resets our understanding of how ice behaves in the frigid vastness of deep space and could influence our ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...