NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...
NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced, Edited, and ...
The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...
Before 3I/ATLAS, the only other confirmed interstellar tourists we've seen were the now-famous, cigar-shaped 'Oumuamua' in ...
An interstellar comet making a brief passage through the solar system has triggered one of the largest coordinated astronomical observation efforts in recent memory. Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third ...
At its peak the Geminid meteor shower produces over a hundred meteors every hour.
New 3I/ATLAS images from NASA and the ESA suggest the interstellar comet is active as it approaches Earth in December.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveals astonishingly rich organic chemistry, confirming that life's building blocks are ...