Fast-changing sodium gas around the 5. 4-million-year-old star PDS 70 provides evidence that icy exocomets may be plunging ...

A knockout new version of the beloved field watch plays up its links to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar.

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Astronomers have revealed new details about the makeup and age of a visiting comet that was born around a distant star. They conclude that the composition of 3I/Atlas is strikingly different from any ...

An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun and swung by Earth last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, ...

The year 2023 brought us the summer of Barbenheimer, where two entirely different movies went head-to-head at the box office. But 25 years earlier, the summer of 1998 was marked by a very different ...

A newly discovered comet, C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), is set to pass by Earth this week. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth on April 27, coming within 44 million miles. It may be visible to ...

A newly discovered comet, C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), could be the brightest of its kind visible from Earth in 2026. The comet will make its closest approach to the sun on April 19 and its closest approach ...

Comet C/2025 R3 is already drawing attention—and offers a rare chance to understand what separates an ordinary comet from a truly “great” one. Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) hangs above Bietschhorn in ...

The Artemis II moon mission may have concluded, but there are still some cosmic wonders on the horizon. For the first time since the prehistoric age, interstellar comet C/2025 R3 (Pan-STARRS) will be ...