Comet 3I/ATLAS continues to make astonishing headlines, thanks to new findings from astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This new research reveals that 3I/ATLAS ...

At more than 60 kilometers per second relative to the Sun, 3I/ATLAS did not arrive quietly. The object is only the third confirmed visitor from beyond the solar system, and its passage has turned into ...

Comets are often treated as leftovers, but sometimes the leftovers become the primary focus. That is the case with 3I/ATLAS, only the third known interstellar object seen crossing the solar system, ...

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Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar ...

Two images of 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object. The left image shows it through multiple color filters moving quickly through a field of stars. The right image combines each photo to show the comet’s ...

Are we hitching our wagon to the wrong star? Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has slammed a seemingly far-fetched proposal to intercept interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with a spacecraft, claiming that we’re ...

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that spacecraft’s velocity could receive a huge boost — enough to allow it to catch up with ...

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on December 19, coming within just 167 million miles. Scientists have been closely monitoring the object — which is largely ...