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There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped some spooky looking photos of our solar system's newest interstellar invader on the ...
Aliens are visiting our solar system. Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and ...
However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...
Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...
The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.
Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...
The Vera Rubin telescope is poised to kick off an explosive era of discovery. "It's like old-fashioned astronomy: Find the ...
Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...
Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...
By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the galaxy – a technique that could be useful for interstellar missions ...
How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...