Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

Astronomers discovered the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid, taking the tally to 40,155 per NASA (as of the first week of December). Per ESA, the number was 15,000 in 2016 and 30,000 in 2022. G-d only ...

Among these celestial visitors — the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, along with C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN) — not ...

NASA reveals high-resolution images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after the US shutdown. Is it alien tech? Associate ...

At 3.51 au from the Sun well beyond the region where water ice normally drives strong cometary activity 3I/ ATLAS still ...

The 3I/ATLAS threw off over 13.5 million metric tons of water in the month after perihelion, a plume so large that it caused ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025, by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile and was quickly confirmed to be just the third interstellar visitor to our solar system, after ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...

Astronomers have found what appears to be one of the strangest known worlds in the universe. It orbits a type of rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar – this in itself is unusual, but it is ...

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has expressed concern over the so-called "K-shaped" economy the U.S. is experiencing. What Is A 'K-Shaped' Economy? Talk of a "K-shaped" economy has been brewing ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday.

Is it a flying elephant? A gingerbread man? When I was little, I used to search the clouds for amusing shapes as they drifted across the sky and imagine stories about their patterns. Now I'm a ...