The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...

Earth" that is located about 154 light-years away and is nearly twice as big and four times as massive as our planet.

The host star, HIP 67522, is slightly larger and cooler than our Sun. But unlike our middle-aged star, this one is just 17 ...

This discovery marks the first known case of a compact planetary system with such a noticeable tilt between close planet ...

A discovery made by a NASA rover has offered a clue for this mystery, new research said Wednesday, suggesting that while ...

NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in late October, scooting between the orbits of Mars and Earth -- but closer to the red planet than us at a safe 150 million miles (240 ...