The bikini swimsuit, introduced by French fashion designer Louis Reard on this day in 1946, was named for the Bikini Atoll, where the United States had conducted a news-making atomic ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

A fluffy, Jupiter-sized planet may be triggering deadly flares from its star, leading to the slow destruction of its own atmosphere.

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Spotting a possible interstellar object is incredibly rare, and it’s exciting that our UH-operated system caught it,” ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

A comet has entered the Solar System from interstellar space and will pass through the inner planets later this year, NASA ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

On July 2 at 3 p.m. EDT, Mary Magnuson, an associate science editor at The Conversation U.S., spoke to Darryl Z. Seligman, an astrophysicist at Michigan State University who has been studying 3I/ATLAS ...

The 54 pound chunk from Mars was found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 and could set a record when it appears at auction this ...

Our cosmic home, the solar system, contains incredible planets and magnificent celestial objects, all held together with the ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.