Tonight, stargazers have a unique opportunity to witness a rare celestial event as interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth. This article will guide you on what 3I/ATLAS is, ...

The comet will reach its closest point to Earth at 1am EST (6am GMT) today, coming within 270 million kilometers of us. ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

What is Comet 3I/ATLAS? Comet 3I/ATLAS is classified as an interstellar comet, meaning it formed outside of our solar system and is only passing through briefly. Composed of ice, dust, and frozen ...

In 1994, the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter with a force equal to 300 million atomic bombs.

A team looking at the dynamics of objects in the Kuiper belt, the ring-shaped region of icy bodies well beyond the orbit of Neptune, believe they have found evidence for a "very old, undisturbed ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

This interstellar vagabond is only the third large interstellar visitor that we have ever discovered — an asteroid or comet ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals astonishingly rich organic chemistry, confirming that life's building blocks are ...

A vast ring of rocky leftovers between Mars and Jupiter, the asteroid belt preserves clues to how the planets — and Earth ...

Beyond the asteroid belt lies a realm of giants, rings, and frozen mysteries. This video tours the colossal storms of Jupiter, the graceful rings of Saturn, the sideways tilt of Uranus, and the ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical units (AU), where an AU is the distance between Earth and the sun. This ...