NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.

When Anastasios Tzanidakis was sifting through some older telescope observations, he stumbled across something that should ...

RIO HURTADO, Chile - Astronomers say they have discovered an interstellar comet speeding through the solar system, making it only the third known object of its kind to originate from beyond the Sun’s ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

A NASA telescope has accidentally captured a stunning moment that astronomers thought that they would never see ...

The Subaru Telescope has made an exciting discovery: a small body beyond Pluto, with implications for the formation, evolution, and current structure of the outer solar system. The object was found as ...

The celestial object nicknamed “Ammonite” is believed to be a relic from the earliest days of the solar system. Photo courtesy Nature Astronomy Scientists using the Subaru Telescope on Maunakea in ...

(CNN) — A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third ...

In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.