Recent observations of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show that it has developed a faint blueish hue, hinting at a ...

Long before GPS, explorers used the stars to cross oceans and deserts. Here’s how they turned the night sky into a ...

The closest approach of comet 3I/ATLAS to Earth will happen on Friday, 19 December 2025, at a distance of 1.797478 ...

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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 ...

Water is the universal yardstick of comet science, the baseline for measuring how sunlight drives a comet's activity and releases other gases. Detecting it in an interstellar visitor allows ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Gemini South Observatory in Chile captured this photo of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in July.

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 ...

Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...

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 ...

NASA’s Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS during two visits in July and August 2025. The panels show visible-light (left) and ultraviolet (right) images, ...