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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 ...
How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...
Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last ...
You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...
“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...
The comet was identified as interstellar due to its highly eccentric hyperbolic orbit, which is unlike the elliptical orbits of native Solar System objects.
Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...
The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...
All eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...
Astronomers and space agencies continue to track the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS streaking through solar system at blistering ...
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 ...