While the feds idled, an interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS was barnstorming the solar system, at a speed that reached 153 ...
For the first time ever, data collected by a spacecraft orbiting another planet was officially added to the official database ...
When NASA set out to slam a spacecraft into a comet, the goal was not spectacle but data: a controlled impact that could peel ...
It survived. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has flown past the Sun and emerged intact, but it is not done making news. As of 15 November 2025, it is putting on a show: it has grown a spectacular tail, ...
Examples of Fe-rich and silica-rich impact microspherules (a and b) and metallic dust particles (MDPs; c and d) interpreted as cometary dust from Baffin Bay cores. Yellow arrows show particles of FeSi ...
Twenty-five years ago, humanity first witnessed a collision between a comet and a planet. From July 16 to 22, 1994, enormous pieces of the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (SL9), discovered just a year prior, ...