Multiple NASA missions captured images as an interstellar comet zoomed by Mars in October.

Astonishing interstellar comet captured in new images by NASA Mars missions

NASA released new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS — just the third cosmic visitor from elsewhere in the galaxy ever confirmed — on Wednesday.

NASA releases new photos of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

NASA unveiled close-up pictures on Wednesday of the interstellar comet that’s making a quick one-and-done tour of the solar system.  Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star.  Three NASA spacecraft on and near the red planet zoomed in on the comet as it passed just 18 million miles (29 million kilometers) away, revealing a fuzzy white blob.

NASA unveils close-up pictures of the comet popping by from another star

Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes that Indigenous people apparently left behind in a sort of prehistoric parking lot along a Wisconsin lakeshore.  The Wisconsin Historical Society announced Wednesday that archaeologists have mapped the location of 16 canoes submerged in the lake bed of Lake Mendota in Madison.

Wisconsin archaeologists identify 16 ancient canoes in a prehistoric lake 'parking lot'

Ape ancestors and early humans likely kissed their friends and sexual partners, according to a new study.

Kissing is an ‘evolutionary conundrum.’ Scientists just mapped its unexpected origins

Though a training exercise, the demonstration of force, firepower, and meticulous coordination between different arms of the military felt about as real as one can get. It took around seven minutes of deafening fire and bombardment, often shaking the ground in the area, before IDF forces charged forward to take positions within the “Hamas” village outpost.

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