The interstellar object has been given the name 3I/ATLAS, and we now know it's a comet. The object, which is also known as C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is moving almost twice as fast as the previous two ...

NASA has spotted an intergalactic comet, named 3I/Atlas, that journeyed into our solar system. This icy snowball, the third interstellar object detected, poses no threat to Earth. Currently near ...

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in Rio Hurtado first spotted the object ...

The comet should be visible by telescope through September, before it gets too close to the sun, and reappear in December on ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have identified what they think is an interstellar object — and it could be ...

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...

Rare Comet Could Shine As Bright As Venus: Here’s When You Can See It A celestial event 160,000 years in the making will grace the night sky this week, as Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) makes its rare ...