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

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

The solar system has an uninvited guest that is currently shooting toward us on a one-way trip through our cosmic ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a cosmic first for this decade, astronomers have identified a mysterious comet from another galaxy — ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

A rare interstellar comet is flying through our solar system. Here's how—and when—you might be able to see Comet ATLAS from ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves ...