The arrival of 3I/ATLAS in our solar system spawned multiple proposals for a rendezvous mission to study it up close. As the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected, the wealth of information ...

Researchers detail a 2035 Solar Oberth maneuver mission using chemical propulsion to intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS within 35 to 50 years.

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The Sun would be a far more powerful telescope than any humanity could create in the near future. But to use it, we need to get to 650 AU.

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An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...

A planetary system 116 light-years from Earth has a peculiar pattern. It could flip the script on how planets form, scientists say.

NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.