A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

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

I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

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 and break down plastic, and how animals' sense of smell varies by altitude.

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in Rio Hurtado first spotted the object ...

In a rare astronomical event, astronomers have confirmed the passage of an interstellar object through our solar system.

All around the Universe ... containing phosphorus—an element crucial to life on Earth, but rare in space. While nitrogen-based molecules, like hydrogen cyanide, are found everywhere from comets to gas ...

Outer dark comets are larger – about a mile wide in size – and on more elliptical orbits farther out in the solar system. Inner dark comets are smaller – typically 1,000 feet in size – and on circular ...

NASA has recently discovered some strange dark comets captured close to the Earth, and they are wondering where they are coming from. NASA found seven more “dark comets,” increasing the number of ...