The NASA SPHEREx mission has revealed an extraordinary surge of sublimation activity on the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas ...

The planet is experiencing the most powerful solar event since 2003—and it's bringing spectacular Northern Lights.

We recently discussed the different types of worlds that the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) is expected to find that ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a large space telescope which collects light at infrared wavelengths. It has been ...

Realising that our solar system isn’t like most others out there has helped astronomers rewrite the story of how it formed ...

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...

MARS was not always the beaming red we’re so used to seeing in space. Scientists have revealed that it was actually a “blue ...

American Museum of Natural History Astronomer Dr. Jackie Faherty joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about ...

Planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune – so called sub-Neptunes – are the most common type of known exoplanet. It ...

The recent visit to our solar system by the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation about whether it’s another ...

In late November 2025, astronomers captured an unprecedented cosmic signature: the first X-ray emissions ever detected from an interstellar comet. As Comet 3I/ATLAS hurtled through our solar system at ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Adam Frank is an astrophysicist exploring our place in the Cosmos. As a practicing astrophysicist and science communicator I see ...