Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has just swept past our planet, a brief encounter with an object that was born around another star and will never return. Its flyby offered astronomers a rare chance to ...

I/ATLAS comet is the 3rd-ever object discovered that originated from outside our solar system. It's not a threat, approaches ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

I/ATLAS has passed its closest point to Earth, meaning we will soon lose sight of it for good. Some scientists want to send a spacecraft to chase down the alien comet — or the next interstellar object ...

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The direction, distance and motion of the comet through the sky during its closest approach could have made it seem like it was hovering over Bethlehem when Jesus was said to have been born.

NASA’s latest tracking data show that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is not just racing through the solar system, it is accelerating in a way that standard gravitational models struggle to explain. The ...

3I/ATLAS, the interstellar object, has remained a topic of interest for researchers and space enthusiasts for months. Many discoveries have been made since it was first spotted on July 1, 2025. With ...

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As the comet heads toward its closest pass by Earth, a team led by NASA astrochemist Martin Cordiner used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to study the gases streaming off its ...

The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the object nears its closest approach to Earth later this month. Comet 3I/ATLAS has ...