The slingshot, called TARS, could in theory accelerate a small spacecraft up to 620 miles per second. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Astrophysicists are mapping a vast, hidden structure in space that appears to guide matter and radiation along a kind of interstellar highway stretching from our solar neighborhood to distant stars.

Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds of giant planets, bypassing a hurdle that theoretical models have ...