In the early hours of December 19, 2025, a rare interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth ...

With an image from the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA finds clues outside the solar system that explain crystals born in ...

Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) might be the brightest comet of the year, scientists predict.

Astronomers have long sought evidence to explain why comets at the outskirts of our own solar system contain crystalline ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21. - NASA/ESA/David Jewitt (UCLA) A new image has revealed ...

NASA’s TESS spacecraft tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in January, capturing data on its motion, brightness, and rotation before it left the solar system ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever observed, is making its final pass through our skies, offering a rare ...

Protoplanetary disk. Figure from a computer simulation visualizing the formation of planets (https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12278 ). Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech. August 22, 2024, Mountain View, CA - An ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this artist’s impression, a comet erupts with jets of gas as it falls toward the sun from the depths of the outer solar system.

Webb data explains how heat-formed crystal minerals end up in icy comets by tracking their journey around a young, actively forming star.

Observations with the instrument SPHERE at ESO's Very Large Telescope have produced an unprecedented gallery of "debris disks" in exoplanetary systems. Gaël Chauvin (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy ...