The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the "Moth," just 117 light-years away.

Solar storms around distant stars may be erasing alien radio signals before we ever hear them In A Nutshell Stellar winds and ...

The European Space Agency's JUICE spacecraft has captured detailed images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, offering ...

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

A mysterious object has been identified as an “interstellar visitor” by NASA while shooting through our solar system, sparking discussions about its origin and nature. A Harvard astrophysicist ...

Astronomers have been scanning the skies for alien radio signals for decades, but so far they’ve heard nary a peep (with one possible exception). But according to a recent study, that could be because ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system.

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I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...