The announcement came via a Bluesky post by an astrophysics undergraduate, who shared, "Hubble Space Telescope images of ...

The long-serving space telescope saw the third interloper to enter the solar system from beyond its limits late on Monday ...

The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.

The photos reveal a bright and well-developed coma, the cloud of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus, with striking ...

Sometimes serendipity happens in science. Whether it's an apple falling from a tree or a melting chocolate bar, some of the ...

Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

Astronomers continue to track Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third-ever discovered interstellar object, passing through our solar system ...

The dust trail from Comet 17p/Holmes as viewed in February 2015. The trail is visible as a subtle white line tracking across the upper portions of these five images.

This weekend, the Stardust spacecraft will jettison a 100-pound capsule holding comet dust. It will nosedive through the Earth's atmosphere and, if all goes well, make a soft landing in the Utah ...

Comet C/2017 K2 PANSTARRS is a wonder. It entered the planetary zone of our solar system and is spewing out what NASA describes as an 80,000-mile-wide (130,000-kilometer-wide) fuzzy cloud of dust ...

Spacecraft to Bring Home Comet Dust and Clues. January 9, 2006. By Guy Gugliotta.