A January 2026 Earth–Sun alignment allows measurements of the opposition surge from interstellar object 3I/ATLAS using ...
Far from the bright glare of the Moon, a much smaller companion has been quietly keeping pace with Earth, looping around the Sun in a complex dance that only looks like a shared orbit from our vantage ...
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has long argued that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, which has puzzled astronomers since its discovery in early July, could be an enormous, alien spacecraft, measuring up to ...
The recent close encounter of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS with our Sun has ignited a fiery debate among astronomers. The crux of the controversy lies in conflicting data from telescopes tracking ...
New SPHEREx and Hubble observations document post-perihelion changes in gas and dust emissions from interstellar object ...
A recently identified asteroid is capturing astronomers' attention with its frantic race around the Sun. Discovered under unique observation conditions, this celestial body named 2025 SC79 stands out ...
Comet C/2024 E1, better known as Wierzchos, is skimming past the Sun in a tight, blazing turn that will fling it back toward ...
Space keeps surprising us and sometimes, the surprises look like cosmic fireworks. That’s exactly what might have happened with 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object to ever enter our ...