Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A famous comet visiting from outside our solar system known as 3I/ATLAS is blazing through our cosmic neighborhood, leaving a ...

Astronomers continue to track the third-ever discovered interstellar object, comet 3I/ATLAS, using powerful telescopes and spacecraft as it moves through our cosmic neighborhood. Just last week, the ...

Astronomers and students working together through a unique educational initiative have obtained a striking new image of the growing tail of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. The observations reveal a ...

Could a comet’s tail rewrite what we know about interstellar visitors? That question is now front and center after NASA’s November 5, 2025, observations of 3I/ATLAS revealed a tail structure unlike ...

Since its discovery in early July this year by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), astronomers have been busy studying the third interstellar visitor comet 3I/ATLAS. Adding to ...

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Back in July, scientists operating a planetary defense facility designed to detect potentially hazardous asteroids spotted a visitor from another star: an interstellar object, and the third of its ...

A famous comet visiting from outside our solar system known as 3I/ATLAS is blazing through our cosmic neighborhood, leaving a striking trail in its wake. A ground telescope in Chile recently glimpsed ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is just the third observed interstellar object ever witnessed in Earth's solar system. The Gemini South telescope in Chile is the latest observatory to get a glimpse of the object as it ...