Comet 3I/ATLAS is not coming back — and NASA says it is not a threat to Earth — but a new trajectory study argues we could ...

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...

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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 ...

Scientists propose a daring space mission to intercept the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, using a probe that could reach record-breaking speeds.

Comets usually fade quietly once they swing past the Sun. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS did not follow the same path. Instead, ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s ...

NASA’s SPHEREx telescope spotted interstellar visitor comet 3I/ATLAS flaring up while exiting the solar system. Scientists explain what caused it.

A rare visitor from beyond the Solar System has given scientists a fleeting chance to peer into the chemistry of deep space.

NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) was built for the ambitious purpose of performing an all-sky survey. The data it collects ...

New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened during its farewell tour of the solar system.

NASA associate administrator Amit Kshatriya and associate administrator of NASA Science Dr. Nicky Fox explain that "all ...