Two of NASA’s longest-running space missions, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, have detected a searing-hot region of space where the ...
Nothing manmade has reached further from Earth than the Voyager series of spacecraft. Hurtling away from the sun at 38,000 miles an hour, the duo have now traveled over 12 billion miles, with Voyager ...
Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...
The newly identified cluster of Kuiper Belt objects lies about 4 billion miles from the Sun, offering fresh clues about how ...
PUNCH’s observations of comet 3I/ATLAS from Sept. 28 to Oct. 10, 2025, when the comet was between 231 million to 235 million miles from Earth. Each frame is a daily stacked image, made up of multiple ...
NASA has finally pulled back the curtain on a collection of extraordinary images showing an interstellar visitor that has captivated astronomers and conspiracy theorists alike since its discovery this ...
Stargazers and scientists are getting a holiday present from the cosmos this week. 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet, will get “closest” to Earth on Friday, December 19, as part of its journey across ...
The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space telescopes and orbiters have been documenting the rare visit. A mysterious ...
Much about interstellar objects still eludes us, but researchers figured out what it would take for a hypothetical space rock to collide with Earth. Simulations found that potential impactors are most ...
Space agencies around the globe have launched an unprecedented wave of planetary defense exercises, all centered on a mysterious interstellar visitor that refuses to behave like anything scientists ...