The comet, officially detected on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System)telescope in Chile, has been confirmed to be travelling on a hyperbolic trajectory, meaning ...

NASA confirms water`s chemical signature on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a discovery that could reveal secrets of distant ...

Jupiter is the fastest spinning planet in our Solar System, completing a rotation in less than 10 hours. This rapid spin ...

On October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS reached its closest point to the Sun.Author Laura Nicole Driessen Postdoctoral Researcher in Radio Astronomy ...

As a joke, she labelled it LGM 1 for “Little Green Men”, but the astronomers working on it did not really believe they had ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Stargazers using telescopes should be able to see the object in the predawn sky beginning Nov. 11, according to EarthSky.

Interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS could serve as seeds for giant planet formation, potentially explaining how massive planets form around distant stars, according to BBC and Pfalzner’s research.

The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...

New research from Rice University shows that Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, played a major role in shaping ...

What: Astronomers using JWST and ALMA have captured the earliest known stage of planet formation around the protostar ...

Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.