Comet 3I/ATLAS reaches closest point to Earth
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ESA’s Juice spacecraft observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in November 2025, capturing NavCam images and collecting instrument data, with full science results expected to arrive on Earth in February ...
In the fall of 2023, Unistellar observers joined forces with the Association Française d’Astronomie (AFA) to take another close look at a familiar visitor: Comet 103P/Hartley 2. This tiny but ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS makes closest approach to Earth, 170 million miles away, offering rare insights into interstellar space and ...
Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is a chemical goldmine, holding life's building blocks four times richer than local comets.
A strange, city-sized comet seems to have woken up early as it drifts toward the sun — even though it's still much farther than Saturn in space. Using a giant Chilean desert telescope, the Atacama ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. If you’re yet to see Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) and Comet ...
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