The slingshot, called TARS, could in theory accelerate a small spacecraft up to 620 miles per second. Reaching interstellar space could be far simpler than we thought, thanks to a new idea called TARS ...
An alien comet passing through our solar system made its closest approach to Mars recently, and two European robotic ...
A comet from another star system will swing by Mars on Friday as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar visitor. The comet known as 3I/Atlas will hurtle within 18 million miles ...
A mysterious interstellar object will be visible for a couple more nights before it gets too close to the sun to observe, according to NASA. Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected ...
A European Space Agency spacecraft orbiting Mars caught a glimpse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS last week. - ESA / D. Ducros illustration As a visitor from another solar system made its closest ...
Objects such as 'Oumuamua, Borisov and recently 3I/ATLAS have opened our eyes to the reality that outsiders regularly visit our solar system — and we're about to start spotting a whole lot more of ...
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — which is zooming through our inner solar system — appears to be emitting its own light, according to Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb. The observation by Loeb, if ...