Named 3I/ATLAS, the object reportedly rich in water ice was discovered on July 1 by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile, when it was about 416 million miles (670 million kilometers) from the Sun.

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

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 .

NASA has shared a video and photo of solar winds flowing through the Sun's corona from an extremely close distance. Coronal Mass Ejections impact Earth and other planets, and can prove dangerous to ...

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

Venus, shrouded in mystery, stands out with its toxic atmosphere and retrograde rotation, spinning in the opposite direction ...

Muhammad Umar, who uses his mother’s Celestron telescope to view the stars, said Jupiter, the largest and oldest planet in ...

In looking over the shortlist for the Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 competition, I thought about how I’ve seen tho ...

On June 14 and 16, technicians installed solar panels onto NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, one of the final steps ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.