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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Makes Closest Flyby Tonight — NASA Reveals Exact Time

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest Earth flyby tonight at 1 a.m. EST, NASA confirms. Learn when and how to watch live.

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Scientists detect X-ray glow from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS extending 250,000 miles into space

A rare interstellar comet has been caught in X-rays by two space telescopes, revealing how its gases interact with charged particles from the sun as it travels through the inner solar system.

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Will 2026 bring strong auroras? What the sun's recent activity tells us

2025 was another busy year on the sun. But how did it compare with 2024, and what will 2026 bring for solar activity and the northern lights?

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Best time to see last major meteor shower of the year as it peaks this weekend

Skygazers usually see five to 10 meteors per hour during the height and there's a possibility for outbursts of up to 25 meteors per hour

The Independent UK

US Senate confirms billionaire Musk ally Jared Isaacman as Nasa chief

Vote on Isaacman, private astronaut and Mars missions advocate, passes 67-30 for him to be agency’s 15th leader

The Guardian - US

James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'

"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."

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US Senate confirms Jared Isaacman as new NASA administrator

More than a year after his initial nomination, the U.S. Senate has voted to confirm billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator.

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Blue Origin launches 1st wheelchair user to space and back (video)

Blue Origin launched wheelchair user Michi Benthaus and her NS-37 five crewmates aboard a New Shepard rocket from West Texas on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025.

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Rocket Lab launches 4 experimental 'DiskSats' for the US military

Rocket Lab launched four "DiskSats" for the U.S. Space Force just after midnight on Thursday (Dec. 18), adding to the company's busy 2025.

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Camera on NASA Mars probe snaps its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet

The HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just notched a big milestone, snapping its 100,000th photo of the Red Planet.

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The Odds Are 1 in 40,000: Avi Loeb Explains 3I/ATLAS' Impossible Alignment

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb says the odds of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS aligning its rotation axis toward the Sun are just 1 in 40,000, raising fresh questions about whether standard comet physics is enough to explain its behaviour.

International Business Times UK

SpaceX launches Starlink missions in dual-coast spaceflight doubleheader (videos)

SpaceX launched two Falcon 9 rockets, each carrying Starlink satellites, from Kennedy Space Cener in Florida and Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Dec. 17, 2025.

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Surprise! Saturn's huge moon Titan may not have a buried ocean after all

"We're not certain if having widespread liquid pockets instead of a global ocean makes Titan more or less habitable."

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Astronomers make huge discovery under Saturn’s moon that could change search for alien life

NASA’s planned Dragonfly mission is expected to provide more clarity on the moon’s innards

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Avi Loeb Reveals 3I/ATLAS' Anti-Tail Wobble Like a Cosmic Lighthouse

Harvard's Avi Loeb reveals 3I/ATLAS' anti‑tail wobble before perihelion, likened to a cosmic lighthouse, sparking debate on interstellar anomalies.

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Experiments on a private space station: Vast asks scientists for research proposals

The California startup Vast has opened a call for scientific research aboard its Haven-1 private space station, which is set to launch atop a SpaceX rocket next year.

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Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS wasn't supposed to be there — meet the astronomer who discovered it

Dr. Larry Denneau of the University of Hawaii is nothing like your typical astronomer.

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NASA's Parker Solar Probe captures solar wind doing a 'U-turn'

NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured solar material looping back to the sun, revealing how it recycles magnetic energy and shapes future solar storms.

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NASA's MAVEN spacecraft is still silent at Mars — and apparently is spinning, too

NASA still hasn't heard from its MAVEN Mars orbiter, and the spacecraft appears to be spinning in an odd way as well.

International Business Times UK

3I/ATLAS Forces Astronomers to Reevaluate Probability Distributions for Interstellar Object Properties

Astronomers say 3I/ATLAS is so unusual that it is forcing a rethink of probability distributions used to model interstellar object properties.

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Europe's Ariane 6 rocket launches its 1st pair of Galileo navigation satellites (video)

Europe's Ariane 6 rocket launched a pair of Galileo satellites just after midnight on Wednesday (Dec. 17), adding to the continent's geopositioning constellation.

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Launch of Japan's Michibiki 5 navigation satellite scrubbed late in countdown

The planned launch of Japan's Michibiki 5 navigation satellite atop an H3 rocket tonight (Dec. 16) was scrubbed with less than a minute left in the countdown.

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James Webb Space Telescope discovers a lemon-shaped exoplanet unlike anything seen before: 'What the heck is this?'

"This was an absolute surprise. It's extremely different from what we expected."

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Could the Star of Bethlehem have actually been a comet?

The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born.

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3I/ATLAS' Behaviour Suggests Current Survey Telescopes May Be Missing Exotic Interstellar Visitors

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shows a rare sun‑facing anti‑tail, raising concerns that survey telescopes miss exotic visitors

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