Looking ahead, the comet will pass roughly 33 million miles from Jupiter in March 2026. Loeb noted the scientific value: ...

3I/ATLAS came within 168 million miles of Earth around midnight CST Friday. While that might seem pretty far away, the ...

On the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, a strange, star-shaped scar has become an unlikely focal point in the search ...

Aliens may have been closer to Earth than first thought. New research from NASA reveals that Ceres, the dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, harbored the right conditions to ...

From mudstones on Mars to strange gases in exoplanet atmospheres, tentative evidence for extraterrestrial life is starting to ...

What can Jupiter’s auroras teach scientists about auroras on other planets? This is what a recent study published in Physical Review Letters hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated a new ...

Swinburne University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. On July 1, astronomers spotted an unusual high-speed object zooming towards the Sun. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the ...

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Discovered on July 1 by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed visitor from another ...

A large lunar crater featured in the iconic 'Earthrise' photo has just helped the European JUICE spacecraft hone its alien-hunting instruments during a once-in-a-lifetime flyby. When you purchase ...