Our latest known interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is currently making its way out of the solar system, after passing by ...
The findings surprised researchers, who used the comet's composition to better understand the environment in which it formed.
Exactly where the comet 3I/ATLAS came from within the Milky Way remains a mystery.
One year ago, on July 1, 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the solar system. Detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the object was ...
Juice observed 3I/ATLAS during perihelion, when Earth-based telescopes could not. Spectroscopic observations measured water ...
PARIS, France — An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar ...
A new study into the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet points to it having been born as far back as 12 billion years ago in a very ...
Strange interstellar comet speculated to be alien spacecraft is older than Solar System - Scientists say comet represents ...
SETI scientists searched the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS for radio signals that could indicate extraterrestrial technology ...
It's been nearly a month since the second interstellar object, C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), was detected. And this newly identified object could potentially be studied, according to a new study. The research, ...