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 ...

An artist’s impression of exocomets orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of ...

The buzz around interstellar object 3I/ATLAS—hypothesized by some to be anything from an exotic comet to a piece of alien technology—is likely to take another unpredictable turn, with a new image ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is, once again, doing something strange. This interloper from another star is currently concealed from view behind the sun, leading some people to wonder what it has ...

Astronomers say 3I/ATLAS offers a rare glimpse into material formed around another star, providing data that could reshape how scientists classify comets beyond our Solar System. When Comet 3I/ATLAS ...

Professor Brian Cox has dismissed claims that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft, calling such theories “drivel.” He explained the comet is entirely natural, composed of carbon ...

Rings of comets have been discovered around 74 alien star systems, revealing not only the existence of trillions of icy exocomets, but also the source of most of the water in these systems. The ...

By the time the rumours reached the 'alien probe' stage, 3I/ATLAS had already slipped past the Sun and was heading back into ...

Is it a comet or an alien spaceship? That’s the question that many have been asking ever since a large object — one that originated somewhere far, far away — was spotted in our solar system earlier ...