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For decades, most spacecraft carrying humans have been little more than compact capsules or orbital laboratories. Crews rarely exceed a handful of astronauts, and missions typically last months rather than years. Those limits reveal…

Scientists think it's possible for a spacecraft to gain enough velocity to catch up with iconic interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is currently speeding away from us, by firing its booster rockets during a very close approach to the…

It may be on its way away from Earth and heading out of the solar system, but interstellar invader comet 3I/ATLAS still has some surprises for researchers.New research reveals that jet structures in the sun-facing "anti-tail" of this…

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth early on Friday, Dec. 19. While it won't come close enough to pose any risk to our planet, astronomers have calculated the precise moment when the comet reaches its…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million…

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19, marking a key moment in the journey of one of the rarest visitors ever observed in our solar system.Discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS…

American astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson, and English physicist, science communicator, and musician Professor Brian Cox have given the world their thoughts on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, and the unnecessary…

Two flagship spacecraft captured striking new images of Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, including a surprisingly sharp snapshot from a camera never meant for scientific imaging.Discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in…

Late last month, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope tracked 3I/ATLAS when it was approximately 178 million miles away from Earth. Hubble’s instruments recorded the moving comet as a luminous point while the background stars appeared as…

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the object nears its closest approach to Earth later this month.…