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

In an exciting and rare new discovery, astronomers recently confirmed that a third known interstellar object has entered our solar system. The interstellar comet, dubbed "3I/ATLAS", was initially ...

The comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object and is likely 3 billion years older than our own solar system.

Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...

New research has revealed everything astronomers currently know about the mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

Astronomers confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, came from interstellar space. It appears to be billions of years old.

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Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...