Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...

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

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

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

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

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 ...

Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

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

Astronomers discovered 3I/ATLAS, a 10–20 km-wide interstellar comet racing into the solar system. It will reach perihelion in ...