We’ve all looked up at the night sky and wondered what those lights really look like up close. Stars, planets, the craters on the moon – they’re all up there, waiting to be explored but telescopes ...
A ‘selfie’ taken during Webb’s testing on Earth. Ball Aerospace After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the ...
A comet older than our Solar System is within backyard astronomers’ reach. Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor discovered in July 2025 by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey in Chile, has emerged ...
Perihelion is the point on an orbital course that brings a body closest to the sun. C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) is an Oort cloud comet ...
Through the global Unistellar network, more than 25,000 citizen astronomers are joining SETI Institute researchers to collect real-time data on 3I/ATLAS. Using the Unistellar app, participants can ...