Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected, reached its closest point to Earth overnight from Thursday to Friday (Dec. 18 to 19), and it remains in a good viewing position tonight.

Our third known interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, will reach its closest point to Earth today, December 19. It will still be pretty far away, at 270 million kilometers (168 million miles) away, ...

Today is one astronomers, stargazers and alien conspiracy theorists have been waiting for: interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is as ...

This week the eyes and telescopes of the world will be watching to learn everything we can,' says an astronomer.

The interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is coming near Earth this week and stargazers can see it before it vanishes into deep space ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth this week, sparking alien theories and global interest as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. You’ve likely already heard about two comets visible from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) as imaged using a Seestar S30 smart ...

We are in Germany and it's winter, so we can confidently assume that it is cold, with possible snow covering the fields and roofs of houses. Here we meet the protagonist of this story, farmer and ...

The Southwest Research Institute-led Ultraviolet Spectrograph (UVS) aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft has made valuable ...

A new comet was discovered June 2011 with the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System on a mountaintop in Maui, Hawaii. Comet C/2011 L4 (PanSTARRS) came close to Earth earlier this week ...