Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it ...

Eventually it was confirmed that this object — named 3I/ATLAS, or C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) — was an interstellar visitor. Now, using the U.S. National Science Foundation's (NSF) Gemini North telescope in ...

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

The comet, officially confirmed on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

The astronomical community is abuzz over a newly discovered "interstellar object," only the third of its kind ever seen, ...

You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...