Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS, an Oort Cloud object found by ATLAS in May, skimmed past the Sun on October 8 at 31 million miles.

It came from the Oort Cloud, a giant web of floating miniature planets lying just beyond the edges of the solar system. It dazzled the skies above Chile for a handful of weeks. Now it's gone for the ...

Imagine stumbling upon a time capsule that has travelled for billions of years, untouched by the chaos of our own solar ...

In October, a pair of comets known as Lemmon and SWAN also left trails of dust and gas as they continued along their vast ...

Astronomer Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project captured breathtaking imagery of solar system comet C/2025 K1 ...

A newly announced analysis of comet 3I/ATLAS has renewed global scientific interest in interstellar objects and their ...

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was discovered barrelling towards the sun on May 24, 2025 and is believed to have originated from the ...

Astronomers have captured spectacular images of a comet, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), breaking apart in three large pieces during its ...

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NASA has added interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to its 'Eyes on the Solar System' app, allowing the public to track the object's ...

According to the team, the object likely came from the direction of Sagittarius, and will depart our Solar System towards ...

Ernest Opik, an Estonian astronomer based at the Astronomical Observatory in Tartu from 1921-1944, commenced research on the frequencies and speeds of meteors and comets in the 1920s. In 1932, Opik ...