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

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

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from ...

Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet Center of comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025.

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual, hyperbolic trajectory. If ...

There are lots of objects floating around in our solar system, but one thing most have in common is a common origin, and then ...

NASA confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object passing through our Solar System. O post NASA discovers the existence ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

When asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in December 2024 and reported to the Minor Planet Center, it made headlines due to its unusually high 3.1% chance of impacting Earth; the highest ever ...