An aging spacecraft more than a decade into its mission may soon undertake one of the most ambitious maneuvers in modern ...

Confirmed as an alien comet, new observations have given us a much better idea of how large this interstellar object actually ...

Scientists propose that NASA's Juno probe could intercept the recently discovered interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, providing a close examination of this enigmatic celestial object.

The most striking science photos of the week: including the Perseid meteor shower and glowing underwater wonders.

James Webb Space Telescope discovers 300 mysteriously luminous objects, sparking debate on whether they are galaxies or something else ...

A new scientific paper is drawing attention because it puts forward an unexpected idea about a space object called 3I-ATLAS. Some scientists now question whether this object, which came into our solar ...

Recent claims from Harvard say a comet traveling through our solar system could be a UFO—MSU researchers say they aren't true ...

This week, astronomers have documented the occurrence of an unprecedented stellar death unlike anything seen before.

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U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

“They happen to be very close to each other in the sky right now,” he says. “The closest approach was actually this (Tuesday) ...