An astronomer in Italy caught a fortuitous image of the bright comet Lemmon seemingly entwined with the glowing trail of a ...
Two spacecraft were soon going to cross the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS through its ion tail, one of the two comet tails, ...
Comets tend to have two tails. One is known as the dust tail, and it tends to be more curved, while the other, known as the ion or plasma tail, is straighter, pointing away from the Sun. The tails can ...
At the end of October Europa Clipper will fly in line with 3I/ATLAS’ ion tail — but will any of the charged particles reach ...
Astronomer Gianluca Masi captured spectacular footage of a glowing meteor trail wrapping around the colossal tail of Comet ...
The rare interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is under intense scrutiny as it passes through the solar system. Spacecraft like Hera, ...
Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is defying predictions, sparking 'Trojan Horse' theories. Its bizarre behaviour has forced NASA ...
Two spacecraft are on course for 3I/ATLAS, a mysterious interstellar object that some believe could be an alien mothership.
Astronomers may be just weeks away from an unprecedented opportunity to learn more about our solar system’s interstellar ...
While no spacecraft is near enough to fly through 3I/ATLAS’s dust tail, Europa Clipper may find itself in the path of the ...
While 3I/ATLAS is getting all the attention, there are a number of other comets visible through telescopes and binoculars in ...