Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is confirmed as a natural comet from beyond our solar system, posing no threat to Earth despite ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Much about interstellar objects still eludes us, but researchers figured out what it would take for a hypothetical space rock to collide with Earth.

Hubble images from December 2025 show interstellar object 3I/ATLAS releasing two narrow jets of material as it moves away from the Sun, raising questions about rotation and activity ...

Some distant objects in our solar system bear the gravitational imprint of a small star's close flyby 70,000 years ago, when modern humans were already walking the Earth, a new study suggests. In 2015 ...

By bne science The European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space X-ray telescope has confirmed observations by Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency showing an X-ray source within interstellar object ...

Break out the party hats. Astronomers have all but confirmed that the second known interstellar object is currently whizzing through our Solar System – and unlike the first event, we’ll be able to ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Stanford mathematician Maryam Marzakhani has just won the Fields Prize, often called the Nobel Prize in mathematics. The first woman to win the prize, ...

More than 300 astronomical objects have been thrown off their normal orbit by the gravitational pull of a visiting star which sped through the solar system some 70,000 years ago. In 2015, calculations ...

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Much about interstellar objects still eludes us, but researchers figured out what it would take for a hypothetical space rock to collide with Earth. Simulations found that potential impactors are most ...