Avi Loeb, a renowned Israeli‑American astrophysicist and Harvard professor, has become one of the most provocative voices in the search for extraterrestrial life. Director of the Institute for Theory ...

A mysterious interstellar comet recently entered our solar system and whizzed past the Red planet — Mars. The phenomenal spectacle was captured by the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ...

NBC News' Gadi Schwartz talks to Harvard Professor Avi Loeb about the new images released of interstellar object 3I/Atlas as it passed by Mars and how the government ...

Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The first images from Mars of the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have been released as NASA has gone radio silent due to the government shutdown. Glowing in the Martian sky, 3I/ATLAS was ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest pass to Mars on Oct. 3, and Red Planet spacecraft were ready for it. The NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Chile first observed the comet on July 1, ...

In July 2025, astronomers announced a Manhattan-sized object moving rapidly through our solar system. Named “3I/Atlas,” it’s only the third interstellar object we’ve been able to observe (thus its ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, racing through our solar system at unprecedented speeds, has ignited a fascinating debate among scientists, researchers and space enthusiasts alike. With its unusual ...

For millions of years, a fragment of ice and dust drifted between the stars—like a sealed bottle cast into the cosmic ocean. This summer, that bottle finally washed ashore in our solar system and was ...