NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...
The comet is only the third interstellar object ever detected from a solar system outside our own. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...
When my colleagues and I send them out to explore our solar system, it's important for us to understand the 3D map of our ...
There’s a giant ball of ice barreling through the solar system right now, and it’s bigger than any we’ve seen before. It poses no threat to Earth, but this comet, called C/2014 UN271 ...