Astronomers made the rare and extraordinary discovery of an interstellar object in our own solar system on July ... vapor or organics in 3I/ATLAS' coma if it becomes active. "However, we do not have ...

"3I/ATLAS achieves perihelion on the opposite side of the Sun relative to Earth. This could be intentional to avoid detailed ...

We already knew that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was different from the other two interstellar objects known to have ...

Few cosmic visitors have captured the fascination of astronomers quite like the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hurtling through ...

Astronomers recently confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, came from interstellar space and is now blowing through the solar system at extremely high speeds. It's only the third ...

Three researchers recently published a paper speculating about whether an object (likely a comet) could be "hostile" alien technology Scientists estimate the object to be more than 12-miles-wide, ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...

I Atlas is a newly discovered interstellar comet traveling through our solar system at a record breaking speed of about 209,000 km/h, making it the fastest of its kind ever observed. Unlike comets ...

Recently, I came across a news article stating that scientists want to send a spaceship to explore Atlas—not the mountain range we usually talk about, but the "Atlas asteroid" located outside our ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) The interstellar comet, originally called A11pl3Z and now ...