On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

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

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

A rare interstellar comet is flying through our solar system. Here's how—and when—you might be able to see Comet ATLAS from ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

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

A week and a half after its discovery, there are clues about the origin and age of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS – and ...

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

British astronomers have discovered a mysterious object from space that is likely the oldest comet ever observed.This comet ...

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 ...

A mysterious object, first observed hurtling across the solar system on July 1, has now been identified as "very likely to be ...