The Philae lander from European Space Agency's Rosetta mission's landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Credit: ESA - ...

On Sept. 2, 2016, the European Space Agency finally located Philae, its long-lost comet lander. Philae is a spacecraft about ...

The Costa Blanca Astronomical Society is over the moon to welcome a very special guest – Professor Mark McCaughrean, a ...

Do we know what space actually smells like? And what about other planets, moons, and celestial bodies? Here's what the ...

This unexpected color raises new questions about the alien chemistry of comets from beyond our solar system. On Sept. 7 2025, ...

A telescope in Chile recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS' glowing tail, which observations reveal has grown as the interstellar object ...

New research investigates the possibility that different spacecraft could visit Comet 3I/ATLAS, giving scientists a unique on ...

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has completed a mission study detailing how a proposed spacecraft could fly by an ...

On Sept. 11, 1985, the International Cometary Explorer, or "ICE" became the first spacecraft to fly by a comet. Originally ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will help scientists better understand our Milky Way galaxy's less sparkly ...

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NASA’s SPHEREx joined Webb and Hubble in studying interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, gathering data on its size, chemistry, and physical traits. While harmless to Earth, the comet provides scientists a rare ...