Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a very different structure than comets in the solar system. Hydroxyl compounds ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is on the opposite side of the sun from Earth - but several spacecraft are in the perfect position to get a closer look. As 3I/ATLAS warps and grows the closer it gets to ...

The comet is only the third interstellar object recorded in the solar system. Astronomers just caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet as it zoomed past Mars. Images of the object, dubbed ...

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The first images from Mars of the Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have been released as NASA has gone radio silent due to the government shutdown. Glowing in the Martian sky, 3I/ATLAS was ...

3I/ATLAS, only the third object from beyond our solar system ever spotted from Earth, was viewed from Mars by an orbiting European spacecraft. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang reported on the first ...

Rare interstellar visitor comet 3I/ATLAS has made headlines and caught the attention of the public for months. The object is one of only three space objects originating from a star other than our sun ...

A comet traveling outside the solar system and heading toward the Earth is much larger than scientists first believed, a scientist has detailed in a new report. Avi Loeb claims the comet could even be ...

Astronomers are tracking a newly discovered interstellar visitor called 3I/ATLAS, and early research suggests it may be unusually massive. The comet was first spotted on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS ...

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