Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS stuns scientists, proves Einstein's theory right before making mysterious path shiftAn interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, initially seemed to confirm Einstein's relativity with light bending, but then displayed bizarre b...
04 Nov, 2025, 03.04 PM IST
3I/ATLAS might have just proven Einstein's 1915 theory right before unusually deviating near the Sun, which resurfaces the question: Is it really a comet?Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has seemingly confirmed Einstein's general relativity by exhibiting gravitational lensing as it neared the Sun...
04 Nov, 2025, 06.47 AM IST
What happens if we nuke 3I/ATLAS? Why scientists say deflection, not destruction, is the key to safely steering comets away from EarthNuking 3I/ATLAS if it changes path: Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is passing Earth. Scientists have studied using nuclear explosions to def...
02 Nov, 2025, 03.50 AM IST
3I ATLAS circling around Earth and Sun, and will interstellar object reappear again? Here's if ESA will send spacecraft to study comet. All shocking revelations here3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to enter our solar system, made its closest approach to the Sun on October 30, 2025. Scientis...
01 Nov, 2025, 03.30 PM IST
3I/ATLAS Anomalies and Enormous Kinetic Energy Update: Will comet hit Earth? Interstellar object’s unusual, unexplained features, potential impact explained3I/ATLAS anomalies and enormous kinetic energy update highlights seven unusual features of the interstellar object studied by Prof. Avi Loe...
10 Oct, 2025, 06.13 PM IST
China goes to asteroid, launches Tianwen-2 spacecraft to collect samplesTianwen-2 is more than just a scientific sleuth. It is also a technological steppingstone for China's ambitious Tianwen-3 mission.
29 May, 2025, 12.25 AM IST
An asteroid the size of the Golden Gate Bridge is approaching—but should we worry?A large asteroid named 1998 ST27 is approaching Earth. Despite being potentially hazardous, it will pass by at a safe distance of 3,561,149...
12 Oct, 2024, 05.07 PM IST
Why Valentine’s Day is trending on HoliThe 2023 DW asteroid has a very small chance of impacting Earth in 2046, according to NASA. The asteroid is currently among European Space ...
08 Mar, 2023, 11.07 AM IST
NASA's DART mission first step to prevent possible armageddon, say Indian scientistsIn a first-of-its-kind mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid on Tuesday to ...
27 Sep, 2022, 05.29 PM IST
NASA's DART mission successfully crashes spacecraft into asteroidTermed humanity's first test of planetary defence by NASA, the main objective behind the mission was to redirect the asteroid closer to Did...
27 Sep, 2022, 10.16 AM IST
How stars can cause comets to strike EarthResearchers in Germany calculated how often stars stray into the Oort cloud, a vast, spherical shell of billions of icy objects that is tho...
04 Sep, 2017, 05.28 PM IST
- How wrong-way asteroid avoids colliding with Jupiter
Toronto, March 30 (IANS) For at least a million years, an asteroid orbiting the "wrong" way around the Sun has been playing a cosmic game o...
30 Mar, 2017, 01.15 PM IST
- Hubble spots exocomets taking plunge onto young star
Washington, Jan 7 (IANS) NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered exocomets -- comets outside our solar system -- plunging onto a young...
07 Jan, 2017, 01.59 PM IST
Hubble telescope captures best view of comet breaking apartThe images suggest that the roughly 4.5-billion-year-old comet, named 332P/Ikeya-Murakami (comet 332P), may be spinning so fast that materi...
17 Sep, 2016, 01.14 PM IST
Giant comets may pose danger to life on EarthThe giant comets, termed centaurs, move on unstable orbits crossing the paths of the massive outer planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Nept...
25 Dec, 2015, 02.55 PM IST
Scientists have measured a comet's impenetrable shield in action for the 1st timeThe solar wind can travel millions of miles into deep space, and when it bombards comets the high-energy particles interact with the water ...
01 Aug, 2015, 03.34 PM IST
NASA to use nuclear weapons to defend Earth from asteroids?NASA is looking into the possibility of destroying hazardous asteroids using nuclear weapons to defend our planet.
23 Jun, 2015, 08.09 PM IST