The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star. Tune in ...

The comet was discovered in its final stage before impact. As luck would have it, NASA had a probe on its way to Jupiter, ...

The cosmic wanderer that has fascinated the world since it was found last summer is finally getting ready to say goodbye for ...

Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) will pass close to the Sun on January 20, 2026, in a brief but powerful solar encounter that will ...

This year promises to be a spectacular one for skywatchers, offering an exceptional mix of planetary alignments, eclipses, ...

The international team of astronomers reports that all of the types of ice in the comet appear to be sublimating. This is the phase change where a solid turns into a gas, skipping the liquid phase.

The interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, was first discovered in July 2025, and made its closest approach to the sun (perihelion) ...

All eyes have been on the nearly 5-6 km long exocomet, including NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, aka TESS.

Much of Wales and indeed the UK experienced a display of the northern lights on Monday and Tuesday night following a significant solar storm which whisked charged particles from the Sun in our ...

Astronomers have captured the most dramatic view yet of a planet losing its atmosphere, watching the ultra-hot gas giant WASP ...

In this episode of Physics World Stories, host Andrew Glester explores the fascinating hunt for pristine comets – icy bodies ...