The telescope is part of a cluster of four observatories that include two in Hawaii and one in South Africa, whose job is to do exactly what the Chile telescope did: scan the skies for interstellar ...

NASA Associate Administrator Amit Kshatriya said that despite many rumors about the traveler, it was definitely a comet, not a spacecraft from another star as some have claimed.

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

John Casani spent more than half a century turning speculative ideas about distant worlds into working spacecraft that could survive the trip. His quiet influence at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

Researchers say that a NASA spacecraft currently traveling beyond the solar system has detected a constant hum emanating from deep space. According to a new research study published Monday, the faint ...

Recount Voyager 1's interstellar odyssey that outlived NASA expectations Launched in 1977, NASA's Voyager 1 became the first spacecraft to travel beyond our solar system into interstellar space in ...

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The location of the solar system's outer boundary is a point of contention among astronomers. There are three possible candidates, which "all have merit." But which one is best? When you purchase ...