Despite viral TikTok theories dubbing it the "Path of Destruction," astronomers confirm that comet 3I/ATLAS is far too distant to cause earthquakes or pose any threat to Earth.
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3I-ATLAS could be an alien craft slamming on its breaks to orbit Mars, noted astrophysicist Ari Loeb argues.
A UCLA-led team has achieved the sharpest-ever view of a distant star's disk using a groundbreaking photonic lantern device on a single telescope--no multi-telescope array required. This technology splits incoming starlight into multiple channels, .. ...
For the first time, astronomers have seen life's building blocks in ice beyond the borders of our galaxy.
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, now tailed by a coordinated 'escort', baffles astronomers. Patterned EM pulses and a 38-day 'arrival' timeline fuel speculation of intelligent origin.
Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days -- the second-fastest known.
As mankind was planning the first moon landing in the 1960s, an asteroid approached Earth--and still hasn't left.
The discovery of a new celestial object in the Earth's neighborhood has created a buzz online asking whether the planet now has a second moon in its orbit.
Astronomers are puzzled by interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it defies orbital expectations with unexplained trajectory shifts and exotic chemistry, prompting coordinated NASA-ESA monitoring.
Avi Loeb suggested that if 3I/ATLAS is a spacecraft, it may use its proximity to the Sun's powerful gravitational pull while hidden from us.