A new free monthly screening series called Chroma Knox brings experimental and arthouse films to Knoxville. The series was started by local filmmaker Nathan Swann and is programmed by film critic ...

A mysterious space object named 2023 KQ14, nicknamed “Ammonite,” challenges theories about the mysterious and possible Planet Nine.

Former University of Tennessee System President John Petersen has died. He was 77 years old. Petersen died on Sept. 11 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, according to Walker's Funeral Home. Current UT ...

The official number of exoplanets—planets outside our solar system—tracked by NASA has reached 6,000. Confirmed planets are added to the count on a rolling basis by scientists from around the world, ...

Who hasn't looked into the sky and wondered if there's life out there, somewhere, looking back at us? Is it possible there's alien life closer to home — within the bounds of our solar system? The ...

Astronomers have been racing to get a better look at 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious object screaming into our solar system from far beyond. Now, as the BBC reports, new observations by the Gemini South ...

On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn't by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by the vote of the International Astronomical Union, which declared that Pluto, considered the ...

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) detected significant nickel vapor but almost no iron in the interstellar 3I/Atlas comet. Having nickel without iron is not a chemical signature found in known natural ...

Explore the true scale of the Solar System in this video, which illustrates the relative sizes of the planets and their distances from the Sun. ‘Very Sad’: Trump Slams Supreme Court Ruling White House ...

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 ...