The comet was discovered by the NASA -funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope in Chile on July 1, and it's currently within Jupiter's orbit. According to NASA, it ...

The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO-VLT) has captured clear images of 3I/ATLAS, a fast-moving interstellar comet that the Sun's gravity can't slow down.

The comet was identified as interstellar due to its highly eccentric hyperbolic orbit, which is unlike the elliptical orbits of native Solar System objects.

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

A rare interstellar comet is flying through our solar system. Here's how—and when—you might be able to see Comet ATLAS from ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves ...

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet Center of comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025.

The widely anticipated first images collected by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have been released, offering nothing short of ...

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...