Astronomers have identified an interstellar comet entering our solar system, sparking excitement and intrigue within the scientific community. This rare event offers a unique opportunity to study an ...

A rare interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is currently traversing our solar system, offering scientists a unique chance to study an object from another star. This comet, unlike those orbiting our ...

The comet, discovered in July 2025, originated far beyond our Solar System and is thought to be around 7 billion years old - even older than the Sun. Two stunning new images of the interstellar comet ...

Space is vast and, at times, incomprehensible to the human mind. While we are familiar with our own cosmic neighborhood—the solar system—with its planets like Earth, Mars, and Jupiter, there’s an ...

MSU uncovered images of 3I/ATLAS from two months before it was detected as an interstellar object. These images indicate that the comet was active further from the sun than expected, indicating that ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Have you ever wondered if there is life on another planet? Exoplanets may hold the key to this question. They’re planets that orbit stars beyond ...

Animation of a steam world’s evolution from formation to very old age (100 million years to 20 billion years). The interior is initially hot, and cools over time. How fast the planet cools is ...

The Voyager Interstellar Mission (VIM) is extending Voyager's exploration beyond our solar system's outer planets to interstellar space — the region outside the heliosphere, a protective bubble ...

Nasa continues to find worlds that exist far beyond our Solar System. And now, the American space agency has confirmed the discovery of exoplanet number 6,000! An exoplanet is a planet that orbits a ...