Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system.

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that spacecraft’s velocity could receive a huge boost — enough to allow it to catch up ...

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has slammed a seemingly far-fetched proposal to intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with a spacecraft, claiming that we’re putting energy in the wrong places.

Astronomers first spotted comet 3I/Atlas in data collected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in ...

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Two research papers propose extreme gravitational slingshot trajectories that could fling a spacecraft onto a path to catch up with 3I/ATLAS, which NASA and the European Space Agency describe as an ...

Several of NASA's space-based missions have observed Interstellar Comet 3I⧸ATLAS. As it approaches Mars, orbiters and rovers ...

Voyager 1 is transmitting data from 24 billion kilometres away using less than 200 watts of power. Discover how Nasa engineers maintain this 48-year-old spacecraft in interstellar space.

Close-up measurements from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe are giving scientists an unprecedented look at how the solar wind gains ...