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A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...
New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it ...
How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...
I/ATLAS isn't just fascinating because it is the third interstellar visitor found in the solar system; new research suggests ...
Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...
Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...
When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...
A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...
Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last ...
The comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object and is likely 3 billion years older than our own solar system.