The Namib desert’s sand can be burningly hot but its air, blowing in off the Atlantic Ocean, is cool. Running generates a ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is giving astronomers a rare, close look at material that formed far beyond our planetary ...

The theory, spearheaded by astronomer Michele Bannister and her investigative team at the University of Canterbury in New ...

At 3.51 au from the Sun well beyond the region where water ice normally drives strong cometary activity 3I/ ATLAS still ...

The small, icy visitor now racing away from the inner solar system is not just another comet. It is an interstellar object, ...

The third known visitor from another star system, Comet 3I/ATLAS, has been racing through the Solar System with just enough ...

ATLAS, the interstellar anomaly that has rivetted scientists as it hurtles through our solar system, might not be as special ...

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NASA's MAVEN orbiter lost contact after observing an interstellar visitor dubbed 3I/ATLAS during its close approach to Mars, ...

Astronomers are closing in on one of the most tantalizing possibilities in planetary science, evidence that a previously ...

I/ATLAS might only be the third interstellar object seen in our solar system. But it is not special in the sense that there are 10^{23}, or one hundred sextillion, such objects in the Milky Way alone.

When an interstellar visitor slices through the solar system, astronomers usually have to make do with a fleeting, side-on ...