Our scientists are investigating how a UK-led team could design and build a core instrument for a flagship NASA mission to search for life on distant ...

Short-period comets get close to the sun much more often than their long-period kin, and every time they do, they deplete ...

The most explosive theory comes from Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who suggests 3I/ATLAS may not be a natural object at ...

A scientist spotted an asteroid hiding in the sun's glare that orbits the sun in just 128 days, making it the second fastest ...

Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring ...

At the same time, significant reserves of organic material, combined with the subglacial ocean of water, seas of methane and ...

Deep inside a Swiss mountain, a group of students spent some of the summer simulating what life might be like inside a lunar ...

Despite his concerns, NASA said that 'Comet 3I/ATLAS poses no threat to Earth and will remain far away'. "The closest it will ...

Discover why 31/Atlas appears to have reversed thrust, leaving scientists and experts perplexed about its new trajectory.

A rare interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, is approaching its closest point to the Sun on October 30. Scientists are excited to study this alien object, which appears to be ejecting gas and dust. This event ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

From our small blue planet to the farthest reaches of the observable cosmos, this breathtaking journey explores the true ...