In an earlier blog post about Christopher Nolan's latest blockbuster movie, Interstellar, I lauded the film for its ambition, ...

Measured on its inbound leg, 37 miles per second, 3I/ATLAS was a member of the Solar System already travelling at a speed ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

What: Ultraviolet observations of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS captured by NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft while the ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar created a black hole that would later turn out to be fairly scientifically accurate.

When astronomers first spotted a faint, fast-moving object racing through the outer Solar System in mid-2025, few expected it ...

When a “comet” acts like a comet but doesn’t move like one, the issue isn’t the label; it’s the physics that comes with it. 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through the ...

Though this hunt came up empty, the fact that 3I/ATLAS is only the third known object found in the solar system after ...

Scientists scanned interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS for alien signals using powerful radio telescopes, found nothing artificial, ...

The movie Interstellar is a science fiction thriller. But should the emphasis be on “fiction”? We break down the film’s accuracy. And beyond Interstellar, does the silver screen ever truly do science ...

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I/ATLAS may have moved away from Earth as it makes its way out of the solar system, but this interstellar intruder continues ...