Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...

It took over nine years for New Horizons to reach Pluto after blasting off atop an Atlas 5 rocket on Jan. 19, 2006. After ...

A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted: the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! It was detected July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Most known ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever encountered.

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

The object is big – possibly as wide 12 miles, larger than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs – and is speeding ...

Welcome to Edition 8.02 of the Rocket Report! It's worth taking a moment to recognize an important anniversary in the history ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — After several delays, NASA and Axiom Space now plan to launch the private Axiom Mission 4 on Sunday, June 22. A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is set to lift off from Launch ...

The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...

For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...