The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system. The object is a comet hailing from the direction of the constellation ...

While most scientists believe it’s a natural comet, one Harvard astronomer has suggested its unusual features could hint at ...

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A pair of space probes cruising the solar system may be able to pass through the tail of the mysterious Manhattan-sized comet ...

Two spacecraft are on course for 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object that some believe could be an alien mothership.

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Viewed from orbit, Jackass Flats — situated in southern Nevada about 65 miles northwest of Las Vegas — could easily be confused for Mars. The alluvial basin is full of tan and gray regolit ...