A vast, tangled cluster of dark patches has rotated into direct view, its magnetic fields twisted enough to invite ...

Imagine a visitor that has travelled untold light years, crossing the vast gulf between star systems, only to reveal that it ...

Forget aliens lurking in the shadows of some distant planet; astronomers are transfixed by one that's just blazed into our ...

Who knew a camera built for the study of dusty Martian dunes would, one day, picture a cosmic bullet flying by at 130,000 ...

The third confirmed interstellar object to enter the Solar System, 3I/ATLAS, has confounded the scientific community by exhibiting a series of physical and orbital characteristics that defy ...

The Wide Field Camera 3 instrument gives the telescope the ability to capture a panchromatic view of objects flying through the solar system, other galaxies and exoplanets, NASA explains.

Beyond the local interstellar clouds and their wispy clumps of hydrogen and helium atoms in the form of gas and dust, the ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, initially predicted to be a dormant fragment of ice, has confounded astronomers by ...

Neutral summary of 3I/ATLAS anomalies, detailing unusual trajectory, mass, jets, gas composition, and non-gravitational ...

Fantasizing about interplanetary exploration is a fun mental exercise, but the harsh realities of life (or lack thereof) in ...

A European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft travelling to Jupiter has captured a new image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, the ...

A newly analyzed planetary system has turned up a world orbiting at such a skewed angle that it defies the neat textbook ...