The VERVE mission seeks to investigate the presence of bacterial life floating in the heavy cloud cover on Venus up close.

Comet 3I/Atlas may be the oldest spotted so far and should be visible through amateur telescopes in just a few weeks' time.

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

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

Lead researcher Dr. Isabel Santos-Santos said, “We know of about 60 companion galaxies around the Milky Way, but we think ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

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 ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

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

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.

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