On Episode 173 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and and Tariq Malik look back at the week in space news.

An aging spacecraft more than a decade into its mission may soon undertake one of the most ambitious maneuvers in modern ...

Confirmed as an alien comet, new observations have given us a much better idea of how large this interstellar object actually ...

No one knows where the comet came from. It’s like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second,” said David Jewitt, ...

This week, astronomers have documented the occurrence of an unprecedented stellar death unlike anything seen before.

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked debate among astronomers since its discovery, and some are exploring whether it ...

U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

“They happen to be very close to each other in the sky right now,” he says. “The closest approach was actually this (Tuesday) ...

On the subject of Comet 3I's unnaturalness, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has admitted to having concerns about the discovery in ...

The space telescope obtained some details about the third recent interstellar visitor.

The 3I/ATLAS, which was first spotted on July 1, has the fastest velocity of any solar system visitor to date, NASA says. The comet’s 130,000 mph speed is nearly 100 times the speed of some bullets.