Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

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 ...

A rare interstellar comet is flying through our solar system. Here's how—and when—you might be able to see Comet ATLAS from ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the object with the ...

Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

Finally, the Earth moves a little bit beyond one complete revolution, so the stick again points towards the sun for a second ...

Our planet whirls around the sun in an ellipse, rather than a circle. On Thursday the planet reached its farthest point from its star, known as aphelion.

Astronomers spot rare interstellar comet speeding through solar system At the time of its unexpected discovery, the comet was about 420 million miles from Earth, near Jupiter, and closing in on what ...

On that date, it will pass around 0.00007 Astronomical Units (AU) of the Moon, with 1 AU being the distance between the Earth and the Sun. Diagram showing the position uncertainty of asteroid 2024 ...