The Boeing 737-700, formerly operated as N712JM, spent years as a secretive U.S. Air Force flying testbed, and is now becoming NASA’s new reduced-gravity ...

First glimpsed as “little red dots” in deep-space images from the James Webb Space Telescope, these giant, gas-shrouded black holes are full of surprises ...

The meteor shower's peak Wednesday night into Thursday morning coincides with a total solar eclipse across Spain, Iceland and Greenland and a six-planet parade — though the best time to view the ...

Cropped image of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope observation of comet 3I/ATLAS with its Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument. Credit: NASA/James Webb Space Telescope This result is especially ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS arrived from beyond the Solar System carrying a chemical story unlike anything astronomers had measured before. In the gas around it, they found isotope ratios that do not match the ...

VLT observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveal unusual chemical ratios, suggesting it formed around an ancient star and may be older than the Sun. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers have used the ...

Last year, an interstellar traveler entered our solar system. Some speculated that it was an alien spacecraft, but it turned out to be a comet, 3I/Atlas, and it provoked interest from astronomers and ...

3I/ATLAS is an interstellar comet with strange chemistry, unusual metals, and surprising water activity far from the Sun. Its leaking vapor may reveal how comets form around other stars and why this ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Comets have played an interesting role in the history of astronomy. Since antiquity, many cultures saw them as omens or spirits, portending good or bad news for kings, queens and emperors. Over the ...

Astronomers have revealed new details about the make-up and age of a visiting comet that was born around a distant star. They conclude that the composition of 3I/Atlas is strikingly different from any ...