Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the stars over a week before it was officially ...

The James Webb Space Telescope observed a large amount of methane around 3I/ATLAS, revealing just how different it is from ...

An extraordinary new image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has given scientists their clearest view yet of a rare visitor from beyond the solar system. Captured on 11 January 2026 by Italy's Virtual ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gone from obscure visitor to front‑page mystery, as a cascade of new images reveals behavior that does not fit comfortably inside existing comet playbooks. Jets that ...

The SETI Institute says it found no evidence of technosignatures during a comprehensive examination of the mysterious ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) two satellites and several NASA spacecraft at and near Mars zoomed in on the comet as it passed the red planet just 29 million kilometres away last month. NASA ...

NASA spacecraft observed the celestial iceball as it swung past Mars last October, venturing within 19 million miles ...

Pictures of 3I/ATLAS will soon be all we have to remind us of the strange interstellar comet and its brief visit to our cosmic neighborhood. Fortunately, thanks to the world's space agencies, we'll ...

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an ...

New 3I/ATLAS images show the comet getting active ahead of close encounter with Earth NASA and ESA both shared new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS this week, as the agencies gear up for the ...

New images from the Hubble telescope show an extrasolar entity as it hurtles through our solar system at speeds of more than 130,000 mph (210,000 km/h).