Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and the Centro de Astrobiología, part of ...
Comet WierzchoĹ›, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But ...
From the first rockets launched from Earth to spacecraft now drifting toward interstellar space, this journey captures ...
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.
For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...
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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 ...
New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened ...