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Why humanity may never escape the solar system, no matter how hard we try

Humanity has already flung machines into interstellar space, but sending people is a different problem entirely. The physics ...
Space.com on MSN

Comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) crumbles apart in stunning new telescope images

The comet broke into pieces after making a close approach around the sun in October 2025.

3I/ATLAS: NASA’s TESS Releases 28-Hr Long Footage Of Exocomet; Harvard’s Avi Loeb Looks for More Anomalies [WATCH]

All eyes have been on the nearly 5-6 km long exocomet, including NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, aka TESS.

3I/ATLAS: Exocomet’s Post-Perihelion Spectrum Decoded By Avi Loeb; The Results Confirms Nickel Anomaly?

3I/ATLAS, the third-ever interstellar interloper since 1I/Oumuamua (2017) and 2I/Borisov (2019) entered the edge of the solar ...

NASA Tracks Comet C/2024 E1 at Perihelion – Forcing Stargazers To Adjust Expectations

NASA confirms Comet C/2024 E1's perihelion on 20 January 20 will increase brightness but limit visibility; experts urge ...
Astronomy

Oct. 23, 1893: Birth of Ernest Opik

Born Oct. 23, 1893, in Estonia, Ernest Opik was based at the Astronomical Observatory in Tartu from 1921-1944. It was there in the 1920s that he began to research meteors and comets, their frequencies ...
The Daily Progress

An accidental discovery at a planetarium opens a window into the universe's inner workings

NEW YORK — Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural History last ...