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Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...
In this week’s episode of Space Minds David Ariosto sits down Nathalie Cabrol, Director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI ...
Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.
The Tianwen-2 probe has sent a self-portrait as it heads toward one of the most enigmatic objects in our space neighborhood: the quasi-moon Kamo‘oalewa.
National Archives and Records Administration The space race between the United States and the Soviet Union stepped up a gear on May 25, 1961, when American President John F. Kennedy announced that his ...
Private space company Firefly Aerospace says it will equip the Elytra orbital vehicles with the Ocula telescopes to conduct planetary observations.
Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, July 4Mercury reaches its greatest eastern elongation (26°) ...
PARIS, France (AFP) — An object from outside the Solar System has been spotted hurtling towards the Sun, which if confirmed, would be the third visitor from the stars ever detected, the European ...
An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.
The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...
If we're to land humans on Mars in the coming decades, we'll have to know what challenges await them when they get there.