comets

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will soon leave our solar system, never to return, but the observations of the…

In a happy twist of fate, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope just witnessed a comet in the act of…

Comet 3I/Atlas is now heading out of the solar system and into interstellar space, but scientists are still…

The Great Comet of 1680 over Rotterdam as painted by Lieve Verschuier. Credit: Lieve Verschuier, Public Domain, via…

Press Release 12 January 2026 Gas and dust flowing from stars can, under the right conditions, clash with…

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Lee esta historia en español aquí. NASA is in the midst of an unprecedented solar system-wide observation campaign,…

Laser trial run kickstarts new era of interferometry | Chasing Starlight Eso.orgLaser trial at ESO kickstarts new era of…

The object was first spotted by us Earth-dwellers in July (Picture: International Gemini Observatory/Qicheng Zhang/Lowell Observatory) Our solar…

A deep image of 3I/ATLAS captured by the International Gemini Observatory in Chile, showing the coma of gas…

It’s flying too close for comfort. There has been much talk about the Manhattan-sized comet 3I/ATLAS that reportedly…

The comet 12P/Pons-Brooks (Credit: Nielander/Public Domain) Welcome to this edition of The Intelligence Brief… This week, astronomers in…

How Open NASA Data on Comet 3I/ATLAS Will Power Tomorrow’s Discoveries