Although it's smaller than a planet, Chiron could be a natural laboratory for learning about how ring systems form, change, ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just flew by the sun. Next, the object will fly by Earth in ...

Astronomers using NASA's Swift telescope detected water on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in a surprising location. Discover how ...

A laser-based ice drill can bore deep, narrow channels into ice while keeping both mass and energy requirements lower than ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has astronomers stumped with its bizarre sun-facing tail and weird composition. But it’s also ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, is not like other comets in our Solar System. Unlike typical comets that orbit the Sun, 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet, having originated from a distant ...

Eugene Shoemaker, the founder of astrogeology, dedicated his life to understanding planetary formation through impacts. His ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is reaching its closest point to the Sun, a rare perihelion event triggering significant ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reaches its closest approach to the Sun in a high-stakes “acid test” moment. Will it survive or ...

How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has measured for the first time the chemical composition and physical characteristics ...

When NASA’s communication with the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS went silent, India’s space telescope continued tracking it, uncovering surprising data. The telescope observed unusual ...