A newly discovered comet is giving astronomers a rare early look at a high-risk journey toward the sun. First detected on January 13 by French researchers at the AMACS1 observatory in San Pedro de ...

NASA released close-up images on Wednesday of the rare interstellar comet that's making a single pass through the solar system. One of the images shows the comet, also known as 3I/ATLAS, as it moves ...

An interstellar comet is passing through our solar system: here is everything you need to know. Comet 3I/ATLAS was first discovered on July 1, 2025, spotted by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has just pulled off the kind of stunt that keeps planetary scientists humble. After racing through its closest swing past the sun, instruments recorded an apparent void on ...

Researchers have narrowed down the exact route that the interstellar interloper 3I/ATLAS will take as it begins its one-way trip out of the solar system. Thanks to data collected from the alien ...

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Is it alien? Is it natural? Those questions have followed the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS since it entered our solar system last year from beyond our own star system. A new study released ...

A fresh analysis of Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák observations suggests it abruptly reversed its spin after its last Earth flyby—an extreme and unprecedented change. Reading time 3 minutes The ...

The icy solar system comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) is set to make its closest pass of Earth tomorrow (Feb. 17), an event known to astronomers as perigee. But your ability to see the ancient wanderer ...

Update: Friday, December 19, 8:16 a.m. ET: The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0 has postponed its livestream of 3I/ATLAS’s Earth flyby to Friday, December 19, starting at 11:00 p.m. ET. Original article ...