This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a deeper look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, as it zoomed through the solar system on Nov. 30. The Wide Field Camera 3 ...
On 1 July 2025, astronomers using the ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, detected a faint, fast-moving object unlike anything seen before.