About 4.6 billion years ago, a celestial cloud collapsed, paving the way for our solar system to form. Then, a nebula with strong gravitational pull took shape, kick-starting the birth of the sun. But ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Earth is set to host a rare visitor, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, on October 29, 2025. Discovered in July 2025, this ...

While 3I/ATLAS is getting all the attention, there are a number of other comets visible through telescopes and binoculars in ...

NASA confirmed that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is not originating from our solar system due to its hyperbolic trajectory ...

Scientists have studied our solar system, which is home to eight major planets and more than 400 known moons orbiting six of them, to understand the new phase of the moon formation observed around ...

I/ATLAS sent a message to Earth after it passed its perihelion. Scientists found the interstellar object brightened fivefold ...

The four presenters will have 10 minutes apiece to compete by using the planetarium visuals, explaining a part of the universe to the audience.

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just made its closest pass of the sun, setting it on an outgoing path — but it’s not leaving our cosmic ...

I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on 29 October 2025, coming within 1.8 astronomical units, or around 167 million miles.