Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor and continues to be a treasure trove of information about the condition of ...

When the object now known as 3I/ATLAS was first spotted racing through the Solar System earlier this year, astronomers ...

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3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected. It poses no threat to Earth. The comet is currently dim, requiring a telescope to see. It will be closest to the sun in late October.

A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted. It's the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, and it was detected on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS ...

A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial ...

A mysterious celestial body speeding through the solar system and shedding metals was captured in July by the Very Large ...

As the mysterious interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS plummets through our Solar System, NASA’s good old Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best look yet at the interstellar visitor. On July 21 ...

Matteo Luisi, director of the planetarium and observatory at Westminster College, will present the 2025 Henderson Lecture.

Astronomers have spotted a new comet, moving on a trajectory that indicates that it whizzed into our solar system from interstellar space and is just passing through. It's only the third time ...

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on ...