The Voyager spacecraft, launched by NASA in the 1970s, have embarked on humanity’s most ambitious journey into the depths of ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

Priscilla Diane Chapman Frisch, a University of Chicago Research Professor in Astronomy and Astrophysics and a world-leading ...

Once in space, the Comet Interceptor will travel to the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2 (just like Ariel), meaning 932,000 miles ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Voyager 1 and 2 have traveled farther than any human-made object—well beyond the planets and into interstellar space. But recently, the probes transmitted data that stunned scientists: signals and ...

Interstellar comets offer the tantalizing opportunity for us to touch something truly otherworldly,” says the European Space ...

The comet-like body, designated 3I/ATLAS, is hurtling towards the Sun at a speed of over 60 kilometres per second ...

Elio is with his aunt inside of a space center near the movie's beginning, and he sneaks away to a room housing a replica of ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

In April, scientists announced that they had used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to find a potential signature of alien ...