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Hubble has taken the clearest image to date of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is racing through our solar system at ...
An interstellar comet spotted by NASA is headed for our solar system, showing up near Earth later this year, but it's another ...
Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — which is zooming through our inner solar system — appears to be emitting its own light, ...
In the past decade, astronomers have witnessed three interstellar objects (ISOs) passing through the solar system. These ...
Avi Loeb, the Harvard theoretical physicist who has drawn attention for suggesting comet 3I/ATLAS may be alien-made, is sharing a new thought: The interstellar object could be nuclear-powered, based ...
Astronomers have spotted only three objects known to have come from outside our solar system. The newest, called 3I/ATLAS, is already raising eyebrows. First seen this summer, it doesn’t quite behave ...
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleagues suggest the possibility interstellar space object 3I/ATLAS is generating "its ...
A mysterious interstellar comet named 3I/ATLAS is hurtling toward our solar system — and it's unlike anything we've seen ...
Of course, 3I/ATLAS is no ordinary comet. Discovered on July 1, 2025 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...
Scientists estimate the object to be more than 12-miles-wide, speeding at 37 miles-per-second, relative to the sun.
Detailed photos from the newly operational Vera C. Rubin Observatory have revealed that the recently discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is roughly 7 miles wide, making it the largest of its kind ...
Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not loop back around the sun. That's why astronomers around the world are using ...