New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened ...

NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...

Updated measurements from NASA’s Juno spacecraft could help researchers better understand the planet's mysterious interior, ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has spent the last several months on a tour of our solar system. NASA spacecraft and telescopes have snapped photos of this celestial visitor over the course of its journey ...

NASA is quietly ending financial support for independent planetary science advisory groups, according to a letter posted to the agency’s website on January 16. The affected groups have historically ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object identified by NASA as a comet, recently passed its closest point to the sun. Scientists around the world are observing its months-long journey to learn more about the ...

Astrophysicists are scrambling to study an ancient comet from another star system that entered the solar system this year, and which has already swung past Mars. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the comet poses no ...

WASHINGTON — NASA is ending financial support for several planetary science groups as part of a broader drawdown of the agency’s advisory structure. In a Jan. 16 letter, Louise Prockter, director of ...

NASA’s TESS spacecraft tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in January, capturing data on its motion, brightness, and rotation before it left the solar system ...

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 ...

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It's possibly as big as Manhattan, likely older than our own solar system and it's traveling through space at speeds of up to 153,000 miles per hour. It's also only the third confirmed interstellar ...