After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

A rare interstellar comet is flying through our solar system. Here's how—and when—you might be able to see Comet ATLAS from ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves ...

A mysterious object, first observed hurtling across the solar system on July 1, has now been identified as "very likely to be ...

Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted comet hailing from parts unknown, only the third time such an interstellar object ...

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...