The interstellar visitor may still have a few things to tell us before it leaves our solar system.
A NASA mission is underway to map the heliosphere, which is a huge protective bubble around the solar system that was created by the sun.
NASA’s newly launched IMAP mission is set to tell us more about the boundary between our Solar System and interstellar space ...
NASA’s IMAP spacecraft studies charged particles, energetic neutral atoms, and magnetic fields at the heliosphere’s boundaries, providing real-time space weather data for Earth and spacecraft.
A NASA spacecraft has just reached its permanent observation point to begin a mission unlike any before. Known as IMAP, the ...
NASA’s TESS spacecraft captured dozens of images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in. The data show the rare visitor behaves ...
NASA’s TESS spacecraft tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in January, capturing data on its motion, brightness, and rotation before it left the solar system ...
Astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 3I/ATLAS was confirmed as the third known object to enter our solar system from interstellar ...