The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has sparked a lot of curiosity among experts and scientists who have been closely monitoring the Manhattan-sized cosmic visitor. It is the third interstellar object ...

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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.

Scientists in Boulder are using existing NASA spacecraft to track a rare interstellar comet called 31/ATLAS as it travels through Earth’s solar system. Comet 3I/ATLAS was first observed on July 1 and ...

(NewsNation) — The Harvard scientist raising concerns about incoming comet 3I/ATLAS — namely, that it could be some kind of alien probe sent to study our solar system — is now saying the interstellar ...

A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South at Cerro Pachón in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory and ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as ...

Despite some similarities and speculation, the new comet likely originated from our solar system's Oort Cloud and is not directly connected to 3I/ATLAS. The comet will make its closest approach to ...