“While 3I/ATLAS is a visitor from interstellar space, travelling from outside the Solar System, its behaviour is completely ...
Before we say goodbye to our interstellar visitor, another close encounter is on its way. This one could be course-altering.
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived looking like a routine icy visitor and then promptly started shredding the rulebook that astronomers use to understand these objects. From its skewed tail to ...
Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in space that appears to guide matter and radiation along a kind of interstellar highway stretching from our solar neighborhood to distant stars.
By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...