The interstellar comet will pass safely by Earth, giving astronomers their best chance to study it up close. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

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 ...

Time moves fast. 260 years can zip by in the blink of an eye. That’s how long it took me to fly from the failing Earth of the far future to humanity’s new home upon the Interstellar Arc. One second, I ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are most likely to enter our solar system from two specific directions, a new study suggests. What does it mean for Earth? When you purchase through links on our ...

NASA on Wednesday released new images of an interstellar comet, just the third visitor ever confirmed from elsewhere in the galaxy, which show the object as a bright point of light surrounded by a ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Our brain’s evolution makes it nearly impossible to commit to a multi-generational mission like interstellar travel, says one evolutionary ...

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Biomimetic marching robot brings Christopher Nolan's "Interstellar" to life If you want to build an actual HAL 9000, all you need is an LED, some carpentry skills, and any laptop accessing a talking ...

We know of three interstellar objects (ISO) that have visited our inner solar system. Oumuamua was the first one, and it came and went in 2017. 2l/Borisov, an interstellar comet, was next, appearing ...

Ground-based telescopes lost sight of the comet during its close approach, but solar observatories, including SOHO, STEREO-A, and NOAA's GOES-19 kept tracking it. NOAA's CCOR-1 instrument captured a ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just made its closest pass of the sun, setting it on an outgoing path — but it’s not leaving our cosmic neighborhood yet. The comet, ...