After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be chemically active.

July's night sky offers observations of Mercury and Mars in the evening, Uranus and Neptune near Saturn, and Venus and Uranus in the morning. Saturn will also display two Titan shadow transits ...

Astronomers have uncovered new details about an extraordinary object hurtling through thesolar system. A comet with ...

Interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered just a week ago and ever since, astronomers across the world have been ...

The moon and Saturn will be visible to the naked eye that morning, but skywatchers will need a telescope to see the “far ...

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

The moon, the Milky Way, Saturn, Venus, Jupiter Mars, Neptune, Uranus and comet C/2024 G3 seen above the European Southern Observatory's Paranal Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert in February 2025.

A strange asteroid-comet hybrid that orbits between Jupiter and Neptune could reveal key details about the birth of our solar system.

Recent observations have revealed carbon monoxide venting from the largest comet ever seen, providing clues about its origins ...

A groundbreaking discovery was recently made about the largest comet ever observed hurtling toward the sun from the Oort Cloud in the outer reaches of our solar system. Astronomers recently got a ...

October offers evening views of Mercury and Venus, and pre-dawn sightings of Mars. Saturn, Neptune, Uranus, and Jupiter are visible before midnight. Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) may be ...