Interstellar visitor comet 3I/Atlas may have bid farewell to Earth, but spacecraft traveling through the solar system kept a ...

Some of Hubble's most "impactful" observations captured comet fragments crashing into Jupiter. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 was shredded by Jupiter’s gravity, and its fragments (21 in all) plunged into ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is on a trajectory that could soon lead to a fascinating encounter with NASA’s Jupiter probe. As this comet approaches Jupiter, it may shower the spacecraft with ...

Is the gas giant about to have a close encounter of the 3I kind? Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims that 3I/ATLAS’ bizarre trajectory suggests that it’s sending “satellites” to Jupiter to gather intel ...

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The solar system was hosting the third interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, and observing its movement through space. Experts were yet to confirm where the interstellar comet arrived from, and the ...