As 3I/ATLAS approaches the sun, astronomers expect its frozen ices to sublimate, releasing gas and forming a glowing coma and ...

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 ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

The fastest object in space - Parker Solar Probe - has sent stunning new views of the Sun from its closest distance. The new pictures released by NASA show features in the solar wind and they're ...

NASA confirmed on Friday that the Ax-4 mission crew will depart from the International Space Station no earlier than July 14.

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat ...

The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...

Comet Nishimura came into NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft's field of view. The solar wind was interacting with the tail of the ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

The discovery resets our understanding of how ice behaves in the frigid vastness of deep space and could influence our ...