"The national security establishment has already been doing this for five decades but thought that no one could replicate it, ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

Perihelion for 3I/ATLAS takes place on Oct. 30, when the interstellar interloper will be 1.35 astronomical units (125 million ...

Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just flew by the sun. Next, the object will fly by Earth in December.

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...

Threats from space aren't always obvious, but statistically, it's only a matter of time before one of them happens. One of ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object passing through our solar system, is sparking global interest due to its ...

New ESA simulations suggest that a solar storm on par with the 1859 Carrington Event could wreak havoc on Earth-orbiting ...