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

Stars and planets are inextricably linked. They form together and stars shape the fate of planets. Stars create the dusty ...

Discovered in July, 3I/ATLAS is not your average comet – it’s a giant snowball from beyond our solar system. The comet, ...

Comet C/2025 R3 is generating excitement in the new year as it is set to reach its closest point to Earth in April. It is a ...

An amateur photographer in Portland captures rare images of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS using a smart telescope as the ...

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

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 ...

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

What lies beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt? Today we explore the Oort Cloud a vast, invisible shell of trillions of icy bodies that may stretch nearly two light-years from the Sun. Though never ...

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

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.

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...