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Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...
How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...
Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...
Hopkins and Lintott are two of the six authors of a new paper that uses the new model to trace the origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS, and it appears to be coming from a completely different region of the ...
Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.
Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...
Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.
The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...
Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...
Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted comet hailing from parts unknown, only the third time such an interstellar object ...
An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed. The object -- likely a comet -- was first detected in data collected between ...
For only the third time in history, astronomers have identified what they think is an interstellar object — and it could be ...