The latest interstellar visitor to be discovered in our solar system was born somewhere in the universe that was nothing like our home and, according to a new study, a time long before the solar ...

Astronomers using radio telescope observations to get an inside look at an interstellar comet have gleaned new insights into when and where the celestial object formed. The comet, named 3I/ATLAS, ...

On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] This was the second time the ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now on its way out of our solar system, never to return. The comet was only the third-ever detected object to originate from outside our solar system. Traveling at high ...

"We estimated an outflow from the comet's nucleus of about two tons per second, equivalent to approximately 70 Olympic swimming pools of water vapor ejected into space every day." When you purchase ...

Steven Spielberg grew fascinated with “Interstellar” in the year he was attached to the project before dropping out and Christopher Nolan taking over as director. In a conversation with Empire ...

W e go to literary criticism for strong arguments and stylish sentences. When reading for the former, we look for an interpretive story, a narrative that allows us to make sense of how things — forms, ...

When French entrepreneur Barbara Belvisi arrived in California with two suitcases and a concept for a space greenhouse, she did not have a working prototype or a commercial customer. What she had was ...

Despite competition from box-office-crushing hobbits, X-Men, and Autobots, Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar landed as one of 2014’s big theatrical hits. But its ultimate legacy wasn’t clear at the ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was confirmed in July 2025 as the third known object to visit our solar system from interstellar space. Despite conspiracy theories, scientists say 3I/ATLAS shows all ...

In late 2025 a mysterious comet flew between the orbits of Earth and Mars and reached a speed of more than 150,000 miles per hour during its closest approach to the sun. The rare interstellar guest to ...