While online conspiracies swirl, comet 3I/ATLAS made a close pass by Earth on Dec. 19, giving astronomers a rare glimpse of a ...

A comet from another star system is sweeping through our cosmic backyard and, for the first time, astronomers have picked up ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is gaining wide attention and many are curious to know what its latest approach may reveal. The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is reportedly releasing a remarkable amount of ...

As we wait to hear more about those observations, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb — who has long championed the far-fetched hypothesis that the object could be an alien spacecraft coming to visit — is ...

Scientists have sought out and detected radio emissions from from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, all but confirming that it has natural origins.

The earlier two were ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017, and 2I/Borisov, found in 2019. For scientists, 3I/ATLAS is important because it gives a rare chance to study material from another star system ...

Astronomers say 3I/ATLAS is so unusual that it is forcing a rethink of probability distributions used to model interstellar object properties.

Scientists tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and found rotating jets in a rare sun-facing tail during its 2025 pass through ...

Comet‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ 3I/ATLAS is just the third object that we know of that has been observed to pass through our solar system ...

Astronomers discovered a comet originating from outside the solar system this summer. Its name is 3I/ATLAS ("three-eye-Atlas"), which means it's the third interstellar object found in the solar system ...