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 ...

In early July, astronomers spotted a mysterious object, later dubbed 3I/ATLAS after it was confirmed to be the third-ever interstellar visitor cruising through our solar system. Last week, the object, ...

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 ...

KSP Trooper Jude Remilien was shot during a traffic stop in Lexington. Four people helped save his life, including a mother and daughter who kept him alert and alive Millions in Florida told to stay ...

The startup is fueling its rocket engines with liquid methane. Credit: Interstellar Technologies Amid stables for 1,400 dairy cows, a tanker truck empties its load: a liquid stream of manure that ...

A new analysis of our solar system’s interstellar interloper, 3I/ATLAS, reveals that it’s spewing huge amounts of water — and astronomers can’t immediately explain why. The object, which is widely ...

The mystery behind the famous 1977 “Wow!” signal has gained renewed attention after a Harvard astronomer proposed that the newly observed interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be linked to the event. The ...

A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — streaked past Mars last week. A spacecraft in orbit around the red planet had a front-row ...

Oct. 7 (UPI) --NASA and the European Space Agency are tracking the 3I/ATLAS interstellar object as it travels past Mars on its way toward the Sun and through the solar system. The object is thought to ...

NASA's Perseverance rover took this selfie in May 2025. The Navcam used to capture the apparent comet images is located just below the large white camera at the top of the mast. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS ...

The Manhattan-size interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will buzz past Mars this week — making its closest pass to any planet on its route as scientists are rushing to coordinate craft to observe the ...