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 .

Astronomers have discovered a new interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, which is believed to be the oldest comet ever observed. The comet is estimated to be around 7 billion years old.

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

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

Scientists want to study a distant world in the solar system that is classified as a dwarf planet. But some experts think it ...

A mystery interstellar object spotted last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen, according to scientists. Named 3I/Atlas, it may be three billion years older than our own solar ...

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 ...

The Milky Way could have many more satellite galaxies than scientists have previously been able to predict or observe. Durham ...

NASA released images of star clusters NGC 460 and NGC 456 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Hubble shows visible light, while ...

Researchers from the University of Glasgow teamed up with the culture and research organisation Science Ceilidh to develop a dance to mark the 10th anniversary of the historic first detection of ...