I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The ...

However, the Italy-based The Virtual Telescope Project will give one last live peek at the exocomet as it cruises toward the Jovian moon Eupheme and eventually leaves the solar system. The live event ...

We’ve found lots of “habitable” worlds but we don’t know what factors are needed for life. There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other ...

A mysterious object hurtling through space has been identified as a rare “interstellar object,” only the third of its kind ever seen. In July, NASA reported its ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The object is a comet hailing from the direction of the constellation ...