3I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star. Tune in ...

A Spanish telescope has detected a new comet for the first time in over 40 years, a rare scientific milestone confirmed by ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever detected by astronomers, will make its closest ...

A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is tearing across the inner solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour, a speed that turns ...

Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) will pass close to the Sun on January 20, 2026, in a brief but powerful solar encounter that will ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.

Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever observed, is making its final pass through our skies, offering a rare ...

Here’s how to keep your 3I on it. With 3I/ATLAS slated to make its Earth tour in two days, amateur photographers and astronomers alike are scrambling to catch sight of the interstellar comet. Our ...

The comet, discovered in July 2025, originated far beyond our Solar System and is thought to be around 7 billion years old - ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS makes its closest approach to Earth early Friday. Scientists have tracked the object since its July discovery and confirmed it is a comet, despite online speculation ...

The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. Lowell Observatory astronomer Dr. Qicheng Zhang has captured the first ground-based optical images of Comet 3I/ATLAS ...