I/ATLAS is the fastest comet ever recorded and its interstellar! NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explains. Credit: NASA's ...

A 12-year-old student from London, Ontario has made headlines after spotting two potential new asteroids, an extraordinary achievement for someone his age. Siddharth Patel, a young astronomy ...

Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete more of their gas and dust. Consequently, they don’t typically emit as much ...

Astronomers say 3I/Atlas, the interstellar object passing through our solar system, has changed color again, raising new questions about its composition and behavior.

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