The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.

A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.

By the time the rumours reached the 'alien probe' stage, 3I/ATLAS had already slipped past the Sun and was heading back into ...

When 3I/ATLAS went round the back of the Sun as seen by Earth, the instant seemed as though it were a shut door. On October 30, the closest solar passage of the interstellar comet was at perihelion ...

NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.

Astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 3I/ATLAS was confirmed as the third known object to enter our solar system from interstellar ...

In July, researchers using the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System survey telescope in Chile made an exceedingly rare discovery: a mysterious object passing through the solar ...

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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb claims humanity missed a historic chance to find alien life on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, warning it may have been a spacecraft on a seeding mission.

If Jason Benkoski is right, the path to interstellar space begins in a shipping container tucked behind a laboratory high bay in Maryland. The setup looks like something out of a low-budget sci-fi ...