For millions of years, a tiny icy fragment wandered through space—like a sealed bottle drifting across a cosmic ocean. This ...

3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object to whoosh through our solar system, after 1I/ʻOumuamua (discovered in ...

The April 2024 total solar eclipse caused some birds to believe that a new day had arrived, prompting them to burst into song, a new study found.

The comets, named C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN), are visible from the Northern Hemisphere as their orbits take them ...

Water is the universal yardstick of comet science, the baseline for measuring how sunlight drives a comet's activity and ...

Light bulbs come in many shapes and styles: globes, twists, flame-like candle tips and long tubes. But there aren't many thin ...

Over the two-month testing period, Covert's Interceptor Solar withstood challenging environmental conditions. Summertime in ...

The images offer the closest view yet of comet 3I/ATLAS, famous for being only the third known interstellar object to pass ...

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

NASA’s Swift telescope spotted signs of water on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS - proof that water flows far beyond our solar ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is thought to be roughly 7 billion years old, making it even older than our solar system.