It's not easy to uncover exoplanets, largely lightless objects that either lurk in the dark void of space or are blown out by the light of a nearby star. But astronomers using the James Webb Space ...

P erihelion – or the Earth's closest approach to our host star – will take place on January 3, 2026. At this point, our ...

The comet will come much closer to Jupiter in March, zipping within 33 million miles. It will be the mid-2030s before it ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth early on Friday, Dec. 19. While it didn't come close enough to ...

The interstellar comet will pass safely by Earth, giving astronomers their best chance to study it up close. Interstellar ...

A stray comet from another star is swinging past Earth. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, reached its closest point to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday (Dec. 18 to 19), and it remains in a good viewing position tonight.

A "super-Earth" has been discovered orbiting the closest single star to our Sun, scientists said Wednesday in a breakthrough that could shine a light on Earths nearest planetary neighbours.

Today is one astronomers, stargazers and alien conspiracy theorists have been waiting for: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is as ...

Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles of our planet on Friday. That's as ...

How close to Earth could we find the next Earth-like exoplanet? This is what two papers accepted in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes to address as a team of more than two dozen researchers ...