The third interstellar object detected has been named 3I/ATLAS and was discovered on July 1 from Chile. Astronomers from the ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have identified what they think is an interstellar object — and it could be ...

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...

The comet should be visible by telescope through September, before it gets too close to the sun, and reappear in December on ...

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...

Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...

Tempel 1, a comet discovered by Wilhelm Tempel in 1867, completes an orbit of the Sun every 5.5 years. This year, it has a Valentine's date with NASA's Stardust robotic space probe -- and new ...

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NASA’s spacecraft Stardust-NexT is preparing for a date on Valentine’s Day with comet Tempel 1 at 11:37 p.m. EST. The mission will enable scientists to study the changes that occurred on the ...

The first image of comet Tempel 1 taken by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft is a composite made from observations on Jan. 18 and 19, 2011. On Valentine’s Day (Feb. 14 in […] ...

On February 14th this year, NASA's Stardust probe made its second visit to the comet Tempel 1 at 8.40pm PST, shaving the comet at a distance of 111 miles (178 km) and traveling at a relative speed ...