For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope detected organic molecules coming off comet 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar visitor made its ...

Researchers detail a 2035 Solar Oberth maneuver mission using chemical propulsion to intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS ...

Predicted to reach perihelion again in 2028, it will give astronomers a chance to get additional insights.

An interstellar comet racing through our solar system released methanol, methane and cyanide, NASA says. Could these life linked molecules hint at how worlds across the cosmos are seeded?

Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But experts predict it will eventually be thrown out of the solar system forever ...

The MAPS Comet is expected to reach perihelion in early April, passing only 99,600 miles (160,200 km) above the surface of the sun (photosphere). To survive such a close approach, the comet needs to ...

The Artemis II mission, which will return US astronauts to lunar space, has run into problems that have critics demanding NASA remove the crew from the flight for safety reasons. The bigger question ...

A Harvard scientist has suggested that our Solar System may be far more crowded with interstellar objects than anyone ...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced that, starting with Crew-12 and Artemis II, astronauts will be able to take modern smartphones to space.

Using the Swift telescope, hydroxyl emissions glowed with ultraviolet light, resembling fireworks in slow motion. The presence of these signals, which are ...

INSIDE THIS REPORT The discovery did not arrive with spectacle. It arrived in spectral lines—quiet, technical, and unmistakable. NASA’s SPHEREx telescope has now detected organic molecules streaming ...