The small, icy visitor now racing away from the inner solar system is not just another comet. It is an interstellar object, ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has triggered a global scientific alert after emitting mysterious radio signals, prompting NASA ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, the enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. This latest “inner kernel” was identified by ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shared the images of comet 3I/ATLAS. It's possibly as big as Manhattan, likely older than our own solar system and it's traveling through space at speeds of up to ...

The Kuiper belt, a disc of icy rocks on the outermost edges of the solar system, seems to have more structure than we thought. In 2011, researchers found a cluster of objects there on similar orbits ...

A new report says that Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has found a 12th unexplained anomaly in the interstellar comet known as 3I/Atlas. This discovery has caught the attention of space enthusiasts ...

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C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) has broken into three distinct pieces following its closest approach to the sun on Oct. 8. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...