Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...

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

Comet 31/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object, may be 7 billion years old and could reveal secrets about the early Milky Way and ...

The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.

A cosmic traveler from another star system is currently visiting our solar neighborhood. Scientists are closely observing ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar visitor to our solar system. But with the Rubin Observatory now scanning ...

Scientists are observing a unique interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, currently passing through our solar system. This is only the third such object ever detected.

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

According to the team's measurements, the comet's nucleus is around a whopping 128 kilometers (80 miles) across, making it bigger than the state of Rhode Island, and far larger than its closest ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...