During last year’s brief visit from the comet 3I/ATLAS, astronomers got an extremely rare glimpse into the cosmos beyond our ...
Observations of the fast-moving interstellar comet with the Very Large Telescope in Chile support similar observations made ...
While 3I/ATLAS is definitely a comet, its composition and age have remained unclear. Now, astronomers have solved these ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS carries isotopic ratios entirely outside the Solar System range, ESO’s Very Large Telescope has ...
Astronomers first spotted Comet 3I/ATLAS in June 2025, and it was later confirmed as an interstellar visitor that originated from outside our solar system. As the comet’s name indicates, it is the ...
Observational evidence now suggests that the comet “3I/ATLAS,” known as the third interstellar object to visit our Solar ...
Based on the composition of gases spewed by the icy space rock, researchers estimate that our guest might be up to 12 billion ...
A new study into the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet points to it having been born as far back as 12 billion years ago in a very ...
The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an ...
3I/ATLAS is surrounded by “a complex jet structure,” new images show, sparking fresh speculation that the Manhattan-sized interstellar object could be an artificial alien craft. The images, captured ...
Juice observed 3I/ATLAS during perihelion, when Earth-based telescopes could not. Spectroscopic observations measured water ...
On the 1st of July 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile spotted a new comet entering our solar system. This comet was named 3I/ATLAS, as it's only the third ...