By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is not coming back — and NASA says it is not a threat to Earth — but a new trajectory study argues we could ...

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“Comet 3I/ATLAS was full-on erupting into space in December 2025, after its close flyby of the Sun, causing it to ...

“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 ...

Scientists propose a daring space mission to intercept the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, using a probe that could reach record-breaking speeds.

Observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show increased water, carbon dioxide, and organic gas release after its passage near the Sun, based on data from NASA’s SPHEREx mission ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb claims humanity missed a historic chance to find alien life on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, warning it may have been a spacecraft on a seeding mission.

The arrival of 3I/ATLAS in our solar system spawned multiple proposals for a rendezvous mission to study it up close. As the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected, the wealth of information ...

NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) was built for the ambitious purpose of performing an all-sky survey. The data it collects ...

SPHEREx detected a mix of molecules streaming off the comet, including water ice, carbon dioxide, and rocky material.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mystifying 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet is blazing toward Earth and will in a matter of days come as close to our planet as it ...