“While 3I/ATLAS is a visitor from interstellar space, travelling from outside the Solar System, its behaviour is completely ...
Before we say goodbye to our interstellar visitor, another close encounter is on its way. This one could be course-altering.
A comet from another star system is sweeping through our cosmic backyard and, for the first time, astronomers have picked up a clear radio signal coming from it. The object, known as Comet 3I/ATLAS, ...
“3I/ATLAS presents a new opportunity to study an interstellar object, and observations in X-ray light will complement other observations to help scientists figure out what it is made of,” ESA ...
By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...
Comets usually fade quietly once they swing past the Sun. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS did not follow the same path. Instead, ...
An international team of scientists has examined dust grains gathered by the NASA Stardust spacecraft and brought back to Earth – and has discovered that they originated in the interstellar dust ...