However, a series of groundbreaking technologies are now knocking on the door of interstellar travel, injecting fiery hope ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile recently, and ...

Astrophysicist David McComas is leading a new SpaceX mission to the point between Earth and the sun, where scientists hope to study the boundary of the heliosphere.

On July 1, astronomers spotted an unusual high-speed object zooming towards the sun. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the surprising space traveler had one very special quality: its orbit showed it had come from ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The comet is now closing in on a flyby of Mars next month, before reaching its minimum distance ...

A Harvard physicist who sounded the alarm earlier this month about a rare interstellar object passing through our solar system — suggesting it might be more than a comet — now says it could even be a ...

As the mysterious interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS plummets through our Solar System, NASA’s good old Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best look yet at the interstellar visitor. On July 21 ...

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds of giant planets, bypassing a hurdle that theoretical models have ...