At 210,000 km/h, an interstellar comet does not give engineers and astronomers the luxury of slow iteration. Every observing ...

3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star. Tune in ...

At roughly 250,000 kilometers per hour, comet 3I/ATLAS did not merely pass through the inner solar system it tore through it, fast enough that the Sun could never hope to keep it. That kind of speed ...

After years of speculation, scientists finally believe they have figured out the crystal conundrum thanks to new imaging from ...

Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could ...

C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) brightened significantly ahead of its close approach to the sun.

For the third time in history, NASA has observed an interstellar traveler passing through our solar system. Multiple US and international observatories captured Comet 3IATLAS since its July 1 ...

Scientists have found new evidence suggesting that interstellar 3I/ATLAS is not an alien spaceship, as one conspiracy theory ...

Scientists in Boulder are using existing NASA spacecraft to track a rare interstellar comet called 31/ATLAS as it travels through Earth’s solar system. Comet 3I/ATLAS was first observed on July 1 and ...

I n 2016, NASA launched the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) probe, which famously touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, before ...