Though 3I/ATLAS will never come close to Earth, its passage offers a rare chance to study material beyond our solar system ...

A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...

Comet or asteroid heading for the Sun is only the third time an interstellar object has been spotted inside our group of ...

Finding planets that could potentially be home to life isn’t very easy, but researchers from Switzerland have created an AI ...

Zooming in on 78 disks in the Ophiuchus star-forming region, scientists saw hitherto undiscovered structures around young ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

We have discovered two interstellar objects so far, ’Oumuamua and Comet 2I/Borisov. ’Oumuamua had no dust tail and a ...

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

An object that appears to be from beyond our Solar System has been spotted hurtling towards the Sun, which if confirmed would ...

Mercury reaches its greatest elongation, 26 degrees east of the sun on July 4. From latitude 40 degrees north, the ...

Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...