3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star. Tune in ...

The other two known interstellar comets did not offer such an opportunity.

Comet 3I Atlas is the third confirmed object ever observed entering the Solar System from interstellar space, News.Az reports ...

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In 2017, scientists discovered the first known interstellar object in our Solar System. Meet Oumuamua, which means "scout" in Hawaiian. What could this new astrophysical object be? Where did it come ...

Astronomers suggest the honor should go to an 11th century monk known for a disastrous flying attempt.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a young star flinging heat-formed crystals outward on a cosmic conveyor belt, ...

The complex precursors to biological molecules can form spontaneously in interstellar space, according to a lab experiment ...

The object was first detected by the ATLAS telescope system in Hawaii, originally appearing to be an ordinary comet. However, ...

The comet the world knows as Halley’s Comet may owe its “first to spot the pattern” credit to someone far earlier than Edmond Halley: an 11th-century English monk. New interdisciplinary research ...

The international team of astronomers reports that all of the types of ice in the comet appear to be sublimating. This is the phase change where a solid turns into a gas, skipping the liquid phase.