Scientists who, studying the available data, have concluded that 3I/ATLAS is, to paraphrase, a comet doing comet things. Read more
Jalopnik - Nov 28
Voyager 1 and 2 traveled billions of miles to reach the heliopause, showing how the Sun's magnetic influence marks the boundary of our solar system. Read more
Jalopnik - Nov 23
A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of the solar system – including the movement of Neptune Read more
Newscientist - Nov 19
Harvard researcher Avi Loeb says comet 3I/ATLAS weighs 33 billion tons and spans 3.1 miles, making it far larger than previous interstellar visitors. Read more
Fox News - Sep 30
3I/ATLAS could be a regular, boring old comet that acts a little stranger than usual. Or, if the dreamers are to be believed, it could be an alien vessel of some kind. But what if it’s something else, like a planet-making seed? Believe it or not, there are theories in between complete sci-fi madn... Read more
Vice News - Sep 21
A space instrument built by the University of Colorado Boulder will launch aboard a NASA spacecraft on Sept. 23 to detect and analyze interstellar dust particles in space. Read more
Boulder Daily Camera - Sep 16
Astronomers simply can't shake the feeling that there's something really off about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. The mysterious entity, which was first spotted hurtling towards the Sun in early July, has fascinated researchers ever since. As Science Alert reports, NASA's Hubble, SPHEREx, and Jame... Read more
Futurism - Sep 07
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently photographed Candor Chasma in Mars' Valles Marineris, the largest canyon in the entire solar system. Read more
Livescience - Aug 24