"These first images are astonishing, but the best is still yet to come." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's PUNCH mission has ...
NASA imaged Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) every four minutes for nearly 40 days, marking the longest any comet has been tracked with such frequency.
There was a glimmer in the air tonight at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and it wasn't only because a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies carrying precious NASA cargo. As the agency's ...
NASA's IMAP mission and two other space weather probes took flight atop a Falcon 9 rocket today (Sept. 24). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...
NASA’s SPHEREx joined Webb and Hubble in studying interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, gathering data on its size, chemistry, and physical traits. While harmless to Earth, the comet provides scientists a rare ...
NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on ...
Scientists have just discovered a rare interstellar object hurtling through the solar system, and it's expected to make its closest approach to Earth on October 30. Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the ...
Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object." The cosmic interloper, officially named 3I/ATLAS, is only the third of ...
Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolith, hued ...
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The New Horizons spacecraft sends back its sensational snapshots of Jupiter, and its volcanic moon Io, before the mission's close encounter with Pluto (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via ...
NASA has thrown cold water on Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb’s theory that interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by an extraterrestrial civilization — a sobering albeit unsurprising conclusion ...