James Webb Space Telescope observations show interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has a 50-65 foot irradiated crust formed by billions of years of cosmic ray exposure. Research posted to arXiv indicates the co ...
Could a comet be sent on such a trajectory through the galaxy that its surface no longer reflects the world from which it came? New observations of the comet 3I/ATLAS by the James Webb Space Telescope ...
Three weeks after the “blue-light anomaly,” the absence of data has turned 3I/ATLAS from a scientific curiosity into a test of institutional trust.
In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have detected the building blocks of life in ice outside the Milky Way for the ...
revealing secrets of its ancient journey through the Milky Way. Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have unveiled that this interstellar comet has been profoundly ...
In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator of spaceflight artifacts explores the nearly five-decade history of women in ...