Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever detected passing through our solar system, was caught shedding ...
By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that spacecraft’s velocity could receive a huge boost — enough to allow it to catch up with ...
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and the Centro de Astrobiología, part of ...
Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But ...
Observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show increased water, carbon dioxide, and organic gas release after its passage near the Sun, based on data from NASA’s SPHEREx mission ...
NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.
From the first rockets launched from Earth to spacecraft now drifting toward interstellar space, this journey captures ...
A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 ...
For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...