A new study has attempted to pin down the properties of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, finding it is "anomalously massive" at around 33 billion tons. On July 1, 2025, astronomers spotted an object ...
Fast-moving objects like interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be planet-forming seeds, potentially helping to solve an old Solar ...
In a new study published in the journal Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society, astronomers report the discovery ...
The idea was first hypothesized about 70 years ago. In a bizarre repercussion of Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, objects traveling close to the speed of light appear flipped over. The ...
It’s rare these days for astronomers to find a new class of object in the heavens. After all, we’ve been searching the skies for centuries, so all the easy stuff has already been found. Adding new ...