When viewing a meteor shower, you are seeing pieces of comet debris that heat up and burn as they enter the Earth's ...

The Perseids, considered by astronomers to be the best meteor shower of the year, are about to begin. The meteor shower ...

According to NASA, the Perseids is considered the best meteor shower of the year, largely due to the long streaks of color they leave as they head through our atmosphere, as well as their sheer ...

The comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object and is likely 3 billion years older than our own solar system.

To have the best shot at viewing the Southern Delta Aquariids, NASA recommends looking halfway between the horizon and the ...

Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat ...

The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...