Stephen McAllister (Image: George Munro) On July 1, an object was flagged up by ATLAS (the Asteroid Terrestial-impact Last Alert System) in Rio Hurtado in Chile. It was approximately six miles across, ...

Chadderton-born Professor Brian Cox has spoken out about claims that an interstellar object could be an alien spacecraft ...

An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...

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

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 ...

No one knows where the comet came from. It’s like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second,” said David Jewitt, ...

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

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked debate among astronomers since its discovery, and some are exploring whether it ...

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.

On the subject of Comet 3I's unnaturalness, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has admitted to having concerns about the discovery in ...