Known as 3I/ATLAS, this icy traveler is only the third object ever detected entering from beyond our Sun’s reach. Here’s what scientists have revealed so far about where it came from, how fast it’s ...
3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to enter our solar system, after 'Oumuamua (discovered in 2017), was the first such object, and the second was 2I/Borisov (discovered in 2019). It is set ...
Fullerenes were first discovered by Harry Kroto in the 1970s, for which he and his colleagues received a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Recently, fullerenes have been detected in the stellar winds of red ...