Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Take a journey through the Milky Way galaxy, exploring the wonders of our solar system and the distant stars that illuminate the night sky. The Milky Way is home to over 100 billion stars, each with ...

Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

NASA confirms the arrival of 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object. The ATLAS project spotted it in June 2025. Its speed ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

It was only discovered last month (1 July) by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile and NASA was quick to confirm that the ...

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

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...