Back in July, NASA's ATLAS telescope in Chile spotted a mysterious space object moving at break-neck speeds towards our ...

A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet ...

Time is running short for scientists hoping to collect data from 3I/Atlas, a massive interstellar object hurtling away from ...

IMAP (short for "Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe") is the primary payload on today's flight. The roughly $600 ...

As 3I/Atlas neared its closest point to the sun in its orbit, the internet was abuzz with curiosity about the comet.

In 1977, astronomer Jerry Ehman discovered the mysterious “Wow! Signal” — a powerful radio burst from deep space at the hydrogen line frequency. Nearly five decades later, scientists believe the newly ...

Over the past seven decades, thousands of sophisticated spacecraft have been launched on ambitious missions to look down on ...

Two space probes, Hera and Europa Clipper, are ideally positioned to fly through the debris trail of interstellar comet ...

A new project is collecting thousands of messages destined for the cosmos, coinciding with the anniversary of a landmark ...

A laser-based ice drill can bore deep, narrow channels into ice while keeping both mass and energy requirements lower than ...

For nearly five decades, NASA's twin Voyager probes have plumbed the cosmos in search of answers to some of astronomy's most perplexing mysteries about our solar system and its place in the wider ...