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New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it ...
A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...
I/ATLAS isn't just fascinating because it is the third interstellar visitor found in the solar system; new research suggests ...
Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...
Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...
How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...
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 ...
You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...
Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.
Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...
A potential interstellar interloper is currently zooming toward the Sun. Its strange approach angle suggests it may have come from outside our solar system.