Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

The interstellar comet will pass safely by Earth, giving astronomers their best chance to study it up close. Interstellar ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS will get closest to Earth on Dec. 19, and astronomers will be watching.

On July 1st, 2025, the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected was seen making its way through our solar system.

The European Space Agency's X-ray space observatory XMM-Newton observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 3 December for around ...

In the spirit of the season, the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is changing color as it leaves the sun behind — shifting from a ...

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

Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles of our planet on Friday. That's as ...

Tracking comets accurately is hard. A new effort with the U.N. and NASA aims to better chart these visitors using 3I/ATLAS.

In the most recent observation Nov. 30, 3I/ATLAS was approximately 178 million miles from Earth. Astronomers confirm that the ...

Over a month after its perihelion, or closest pass of the Sun, observations still clearly show 3I/ATLAS' "anti-tail." ...

New images of 3I/Atlas have sparked viral claims that the rare interstellar object is falling apart as it nears Earth. Here ...