When a thunderstorm recently lit up the night sky, cameras captured towering red shapes that looked uncannily like glowing jellyfish hanging above the clouds. The images raced across social media, and ...

NASA on Wednesday released new images and data of Comet 3I/ATLAS, the rare interstellar object that set off weeks of speculation — and a full-blown online debate — over whether it could be an alien ...

The images, captured around Oct. 2-3, remain unreleased. Their delay is attributed to the federal government shutdown that began on Oct. 1, which furloughed NASA personnel and paused data processing, ...

Astronomers have detected the first-ever "radio signal" coming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, right as it passed the halfway mark on its oneway trip through the solar system. And while this may ...

The images were captured by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) on Oct. 3, when the comet passed within about 18 million miles of Mars.