An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...

The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...

An object from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to whip around the sun in ...

In a rare astronomical event, astronomers have confirmed the passage of an interstellar object through our solar system.

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Astronomers have discovered semi-heavy water ice around a young sunlike star, reinforcing theories about the origins of water ...

Astronomers call them main belt comets. A Japanese spacecraft is already on the way to visit a dark comet—and the commanders of that mission didn’t even realize it until recently.

For the past few years, I’ve been studying a type of object that I called a dark comet – which could be just the culprit. In a new study my colleagues and I published in December 2024, we discovered ...

NASA has recently discovered some strange dark comets captured close to the Earth, and they are wondering where they are coming from. NASA found seven more “dark comets,” increasing the number of ...

Credit: Darryl Seligman Contributions to Earth’s oceans It’s still not clear exactly what these dark comets are. They may not even be traditional comets if they don’t have icy surfaces.