As the director of the Peters Observatory at Hamilton College, I have seen many similar streaks across the sky, as I spend ...
A comet born around a distant star is now tearing through our solar system at roughly 150,000 miles per hour, and astronomers ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS arrived from beyond the Solar System carrying a chemical story unlike anything astronomers had measured before ...
For almost a decade—ever since 2017, when our first known interstellar visitor, 1I/‘Oumuamua, swooped through the inner solar ...
A strange class of comet could explain the enigmatic behavior of ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object—and even shed ...
Comets have played an interesting role in the history of astronomy. Since antiquity, many cultures saw them as omens or ...
Based on the composition of gases spewed by the icy space rock, researchers estimate that our guest might be up to 12 billion years old—about three times the age of the solar system ...
Comet 3I/Atlas is now heading out of the solar system and into interstellar space, but scientists are still analyzing the data it left behind as it passed through our cosmic neighborhood. A new study, ...