A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

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 ...

A large asteroid will pass close to Earth in July 2025. NASA and ISRO are closely monitoring its trajectory. The asteroid, ...

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.

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...