After a 35-year journey, Voyager 1 finally reached interstellar space in 2012. The most distant human-made has to venture on ...

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

The Oort Cloud is a massive, invisible shell of icy objects that surrounds our entire solar system. It starts thousands of ...

With the vastness of the Universe, everything in it seems so spread out. But some objects are closer than you might realize. Every now and then, a random interstellar asteroid passes through the Oort ...

New research examines the theory that this biblical phenomenon was actually a comet, and subjects it to mathematical ...

I/ATLAS is not unique, in the sense that there could be billions and trillions of such objects in the Milky Way. In fact, ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what you’ll need to catch a glimpse.

The theory, spearheaded by astronomer Michele Bannister and her investigative team at the University of Canterbury in New ...

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

Unlike the comets that call our solar system home, 3I/ATLAS is a cosmic nomad on a hyperbolic trajectory — a one-time flyby ...

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 ...

Astronomers tracking 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed, say new measurements of its water loss ...