Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Experts tell Live Science how they are planning to observe ...

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...

NASA has shared a video and photo of solar winds flowing through the Sun's corona from an extremely close distance. Coronal Mass Ejections impact Earth and other planets, and can prove dangerous to ...

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Proxima Centauri b is the closest known exoplanet to our solar system that is thought to be within the habitable zone of its star.

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

Some exoplanets in their stars' habitable zones may be distinctly uninhabitable due to solar flaring. Red dwarfs are known for powerful flaring, and since they're dim and their habitable zones are ...

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

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but. The object’s trajectory revealed it to be a much rarer visitor than first ...

The comet is described as a spinning mass of ice, rock and dust, hurtling through space on a path that thankfully poses no threat to Earth. At its closest point, 3 Eye Atlas will remain approximately ...