Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But experts predict it will eventually be thrown out of the solar system ...

The Science: Europa has been considered as a top contender for alien life for even longer than Enceladus, thanks to its ...

NASA’s SPHEREx space telescope mission viewed 3I/ATLAS in December 2025, when researchers believed the brightening occurred due to a phenomenon associated with comets as they vent water, carbon ...

According to the US billionaire, this will require building factories on the Moon and launching AI space exploration satellites using mass drivers ...

"I really wanna see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space. Just going like 'shoom, shoom,' just one after the other." ...

To date, over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered using telescopes on the ground and in space. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

The interstellar visitor, only the third such object to be discovered passing through our solar system, ignited controversial ...

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

With this new survey, astronomers have gained a peek inside a stage of exoplanet system formation they have yet to fully ...

Astronomers are tracking a visitor called 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed. The two previous instances were 1I/’Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. 3I/ATLAS is ...

Astronomers suspect that a massive metallic cloud swirling in a nearby star system could be hiding a giant planet or dwarf star from view, after it drastically dimmed a sun-like star for around nine ...