A comet whizzing through the Solar System has astonished scientists by doing something they had never seen before. In early ...

The fate of a comet that was predicted to pass close to Earth remains a mystery five years after its dramatic breakup in the ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.

Observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show increased water, carbon dioxide, and organic gas release after its passage near the Sun, based on data from NASA’s SPHEREx mission ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was full-on erupting into space in December 2025, after its close flyby of the sun, causing it to significantly brighten. Even water ice was quickly sublimating into gas in ...

Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos), originating from the edge of the Solar System, is set to grace Indian skies in a ...

Space around the Sun contains far more than planets. Scattered through it are smaller bodies made of rock, metal, ice and ...

A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — streaked past Mars last week. A spacecraft in orbit around the red planet had a front-row ...

Following a massive cryovolcanic eruption, the mysterious Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been morphed into a giant spiral ...