The Latest Breaking News from NASA

For one, it came down to timing.

Viral images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have generated wild claims of a hollow comet with a mysterious dark core. As it nears Earth, what is the truth?

A SpaceX Starlink satellite is falling to Earth after a mid-orbit failure on 17 December. While the craft is expected to burn up safely beneath the International Space Station, the event highlights growing worries over orbital debris.

On Thursday (Dec. 18), President Donald Trump issued an executive order designed to ensure American space superiority. It calls for the initial construction of a moon base by 2030, among other goals.

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, reached its closest point to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday (Dec. 18 to 19), and it remains in a good viewing position tonight. Here's how to see it.

The three-dimensional view will help scientists learn more about the origins of life in the Milky Way galaxy and how the universe’s hundreds of millions of galaxies have changed over time

NASA's alien-hunting Europa Clipper spacecraft took seven hours of ultraviolet observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS while both objects zoom toward Jupiter.

Watch the 3I/ATLAS livestream tonight as the interstellar comet reaches its closest point to Earth. NASA confirms findings on its unique "wobbling jet" and origin.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has gotten a rare peek at the aftermath of two cosmic collisions — and helped scientists solve a decades-old mystery

"It's like looking back in time in a sense, to that violent period of our solar system when it was less than a billion years old."

Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is travelling away from the sun on its way back to interstellar space.