Looking up at the night sky often brings peace. Occasionally, space visitors capture public attention. One such visitor is ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

3I/ATLAS was discovered by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on 1 July, and is just the third ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

The world needs to be prepared for an alien attack on Earth in case interstellar object 3I/ATLAS turns out to be an alien mothership, Harvard scientist Avi Loeb says. He wants world leaders to come up ...

On the subject of Comet 3I's unnaturalness, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has admitted to having concerns about the discovery in ...

At the heart of the red nebula, called NGC 2014, lie bright young stars. Each is 10 to 20 times heavier than our Sun.

The rub-a-dub vanish isn’t just a magic trick — it’s a practical demonstration of how your eyes and brain can be misled. Even ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS moving through the solar system at 130,000 ...