Scientists are constantly pushing the boundaries of knowledge and possibility. Over the last year, research teams around the ...

The Electric solar wind Sail doctors (E-Sailors) is a challenge-based Doctoral Network that aims to bring Electric solar wind sail (E-sail) from low Earth orbit (LEO) demonstration missions to the ...

At UNC Asheville, researchers are developing lightweight solar panels that can be built directly into greenhouses.

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object ...

Space telescopes are typically optimized either to study a small patch of the sky across many wavelengths of light or to ...

The comet will reach its closest point to Earth at 1am EST (6am GMT) today, coming within 270 million kilometers of us. ...

While the comet will remain visible to telescopes for several months, tonight marks the moment it is nearest to Earth, making ...

Today is one astronomers, stargazers and alien conspiracy theorists have been waiting for: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is as ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will make its closest approach to Earth on Friday. New X-ray images could shed light on its composition.

3I/ATLAS, the third-ever interstellar object to bump into the solar system since 1I/Oumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019), ...

London, UK - 18 Dec, 2025 - A little over two thousand years ago, an unusual star was seen in the skies above Jerusalem, ...