Comet 3I/ATLAS, which made a close approach to the sun, has prompted lots of public interest. Kim Kardashian asked NASA's ...

Despite passing its closest solar point, intensive study of 3I/ATLAS continues. The European Space Agency (ESA) is scheduled ...

Our interstellar visitor is visible again after reaching its closest approach to the Sun yesterday. The PUNCH mission, a ...

Remember ‘Oumuamua, the first-ever object from interstellar space that astronomers spotted cruising through our solar system? Now a team of scientists has proposed a mission to explore it, Wired ...

Anyone who studies planetary formation would relish the opportunity to get a close-up look at an interstellar object. Sending a mission to one would undoubtedly yield a scientific payoff. There’s a ...

JUICE might be bound to Jupiter, but it is fortuitously in place to peek at this object from beyond the stars.

The Zond 1 probe was the second Soviet spacecraft to reach Venus, and the first lander to have been sent there. However, ...

NASA is in the earliest stages of planning an exoplanet expedition, set to mark the 100th anniversary of its first crewed Moon landing, Apollo 11. A small team based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

New ideas for a robotic interstellar mission are percolating. Ambitious science and strategic plans are being formulated for the fastest flight ever to interstellar space — almost six times faster ...

The solar system recently received its first interstellar visitor, 'Oumuamua, and researchers have now suggested a plan for a mission to meet the next guest from another star. This concept, formulated ...

It sounds like something taken straight from the pages of a high-concept science fiction novel. But scientists now want to launch an interstellar mission into the heart of a distant black hole. The ...

NASA's twin Voyager spacecraft, launched in 1977, have been traveling for so long that they've left our solar system. Amazingly, these venerable probes still talk to Earth, but their plutonium-powered ...