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NASA finds new interstellar comet passing through solar system
NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on Tuesday and confirmed it was a comet from another star system. The new interstellar comet's official name is 3I/ATLAS.
NASA Confirms Arrival of New Interstellar Object in Our Solar System: Here’s What We Know
“On July 1, the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations of a comet that originated from interstellar space,” read a statement issued by NASA on July 2.
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From interstellar dust to life beyond Earth: Why scientists can't wait NASA's new SPHEREx space telescopeA modest NASA space telescope with grand ambitions is scheduled to soon launch into an orbit around Earth. The megaphone-shaped spacecraft, called SPHEREx — short for Spectro-Photometer for the ...
Interstellar engineering: Student uses NASA-supplied simulated lunar soil to 3D print out-of-this-world housing. He hopes his work will allow astronauts to create their own habitats while in outer ...
NASA technologist Les Johnson says we need to rethink our approach to voyaging beyond the solar system. ... Interstellar travel is one of the most frustrating topics in all of astrophysics.
Since NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft became the first humanmade object to cross into interstellar space, researchers have poked and prodded at decades of its data beamed back to Earth from billions ...
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