But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

Initially, the comet appeared red in all observations. However, recent images show it now glowing green. This color shift ...

An unidentified object, which has been named 3I/ATLAS, is traveling through space at 140,000 miles per hour with one expert ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds ...

In the vast, uncharted realms of the cosmos, NASA’s telescopes have detected an eerie and peculiar celestial object. This ...

A high schooler, Matteo Paz, won $250,000 for discovering 1.5 million new space objects with AI. Paz built an AI algorithm to search data from a NASA space telescope for objects such as black holes.

To estimate distances, the team analyzed the objects' brightnesses across multiple wavelengths to infer redshift, age and mass. JWST's powerful Near-Infrared Camera and Mid-Infrared Instrument are ...

Did you know nearly 17,500 satellites have been launched since 1957? Or what about the fact that more than 10% of those ...

Cefalo is the founder of Space DOTs, which launched in 2022 to detect space threats. She and her team have created a software ...

Illustration of congestion in geostationary orbit. Credit: ESA/ID&Sense/ONiRiXEL; CC BY-SA 3.0 U.S. military officials are scrambling to upgrade decades-old systems that track objects in space — a ...