How does a 15-kilometer-wide comet, moving at 152,000 miles per hour, slip into our solar system undetected until a global ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

The study was recently presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Durham, England where researchers revealed that the comet may have originated from the Milky Way 's ...

The scientific and cultural impact of 3I/ATLAS over the coming months and years will serve as an exemplar of what astronomy ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...

Discover the rare interstellar comet 3i/Atlas, recently confirmed by NASA in July 2025. Learn what makes interstellar comets ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

A week and a half after its discovery, there are clues about the origin and age of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS – and ...

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...