Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in the gas around the Sun that behaves like a tunnel carved through interstellar space, potentially linking our solar system to distant stars.

Stargazers and scientists are getting a holiday present from the cosmos this week. Let’s break the facts of this natural phenomena down because it sounds like it could be the plot of an exciting ...

PUNCH’s observations of comet 3I/ATLAS from Sept. 28 to Oct. 10, 2025, when the comet was between 231 million to 235 million miles from Earth. Each frame is a daily stacked image, made up of multiple ...

Two images of 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object. The left image shows it through multiple color filters moving quickly through a field of stars. The right image combines each photo to show the comet’s ...

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The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space telescopes and orbiters have been documenting the rare visit. A mysterious ...

The latest images of an interstellar comet shared by NASA have captured how an array of spacecraft witnessed a flyby that was truly out of this world, revealing clues to the object’s composition.

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile, announced the discovery of something truly spectacular: a mysterious object that appeared to ...

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