Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, speeding towards the Sun at 60 km/s. Classified on July 2 ...

China's Tianwen-2 probe has commenced its decade-long deep space mission, capturing a stunning image of Earth and the Moon ...

Watch Comet 96P/Macholz brighten as it flies by the sun in these time-lapses captured by the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric ...

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

As the comet approached its perihelion—the closest point in its orbit to the Sun—at around 7:30 a.m. ET on Monday, however, it was completely vaporized by the sun's intense heat and radiation.

Comet A3 is just becoming visible in the sky and over the next few weeks will put on a show that's easy for family viewing. David Zura speaks with an academic astronomer.

On June 2, the comet made its closest approach to Earth, when it reached a distance of around 1.5 astronomical units from our planet, which is approximately 1.5 times further away from Earth than ...

In January 2004, after a distant flyby of asteroid 5535 Annefrank, a US spacecraft named Stardust flew within 237 km of Comet Wild 2, collecting dust from the comet before landing in the desert of ...

A newly discovered comet will be visible at times as it flies by Earth next week. But spotting it will take some know-how. Japanese space photographer Hideo Nishimura first observed Comet ...

Comet Siding Spring is also surrounded by a plasma-induced magnetic field. As the nucleus of the comet is heated by the Sun, it releases a large amount of charged particles that create the ...