For only the second time ever, a collision between two asteroids has been observed around an alien star not too far beyond ...

Astronomers have detected the first-ever "radio signal" coming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, right as it passed the halfway mark on its oneway trip through the solar system. And while this may ...

Forget aliens lurking in the shadows of some distant planet; astronomers are transfixed by one that's just blazed into our solar system from the cosmic void. This comet is an object so profoundly rare ...

Scientists say the colour shift in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is due to gases in the comet's coma reacting to solar heat.

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