The universe isn’t just a vast collection of inanimate objects,could it actually be alive? From Earth’s motion to the dance of stars and galaxies, everything in the cosmos is interconnected and in ...

The universe is far bigger and more interconnected than we can truly comprehend. Its scale is mind-bending. Driving around ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet Center of comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025.

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

The shortlist for Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025 features 30 photographs selected from more than 5,800 global ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...