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

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has flagged at least 16 anomalies in his handful of studies so far. While speculations abound ...

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 ...

A newly discovered comet is heading toward the sun. Astronomers say it might become a skywatcher’s dream in 2026.

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

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, ...

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

Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025, by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile and was quickly ...