Update: NASA has confirmed the object is an interstellar comet and says it has been officially named 3I/ATLAS.

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

In his new book '52 Assignments: Night Photography', award-winning astrophotographer Josh Dury invites you to raise your lens ...

An object that appears to be from beyond our Solar System has been spotted hurtling towards the Sun, which if confirmed would ...

Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

The α-Capricornids and the Southern δ-Aquariids will light up the night of July 30th-31st with a combined total of 30 ...

The VRO is a project jointly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of ...

Right now, an extraordinary and rare event is happening in the southern sky: two novae, or stellar explosions, can be seen ...

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From Mercury’s peak visibility to the Southern delta Aquariids meteor shower, July’s skywatching lineup promises an array of ...

To get a glimpse of the “Swift Planet,” EarthSky suggests waiting for the sun to set before looking west for the planet ...