Robotic space probe Voyager 1, the most distant object ever sent from Earth, will reach one light day away from Earth next year, a feat that has taken almost half a century to achieve.

Avi Loeb has claimed that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could trace its journey to the stars in about 8,000 years.

In late 2026, a spacecraft launched in the 1970s will reach a distance from our planet that once belonged purely to science fiction: one full light-day from Earth. When Voyager 1 crosses that ...

Current provost of Johns Hopkins University, who has an asteroid named for him, will lead the prestigious Pasadena ...

It was a year that saw roughly six million Americans hold hands in a continuous (more or less) line across the country to ...

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb proposes using the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to rapidly deliver time capsules, reaching aliens over 20,000 years faster than the Voyager probes.

A growing fleet of privately built spacecraft is preparing to attempt robotic landings on the moon as humanity's exploration ...

The UK's Ministry of Defence has unveiled an image gallery showcasing some of their best photographs from the past year.

But 3I/ATLAS is no ordinary rock – it’s a comet from beyond the solar system which greeted the Earth on December 19. It’s ...

China is rounding off what has been a year of big progress in space, including major crewed lunar landing tests, new rockets ...

The prevailing consensus is that 3I/ATLAS behaves like a comet because it is, quite simply, a comet, albeit one with a passport from a distant star system. NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has even ...

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