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NASA has gone dark just hours before humans get the closest look at the mysterious object barreling through our solar system. The interstellar object dubbed 3I/ATLAS will come within 18 million miles ...

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For the first time ever astronomers have witnessed a budding star system emerge for the cosmic fog.

A comet traveling outside the solar system and heading toward the Earth is much larger than scientists first believed, a scientist has detailed in a new report. Avi Loeb claims the comet could even be ...

Due to the lapse in federal government funding, NASA is not updating this website. As the solar wind flows from the sun, it creates a bubble in space known as the "heliosphere" around our solar system ...

NASA is tracking an object that is entering the solar system at approximately 245,000 km/h. This interstellar visitor is 3I/ATLAS, also known as “Comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) and initially dubbed A11pl3Z.

A comet speeding towards the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is significantly bigger than initially thought, astronomers said. The comet named 3I/ATLAS likely weighs more than 33 billion ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

A new interstellar concept called Chrysalis sketches a 36 mile long rotating habitat designed to carry 2,400 people on a one way, 400 year trip. The destination is Alpha Centauri, about 25 trillion ...