In July, NASA reported its ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Chile identified a comet ...

Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought ...

Intriguingly, the team behind the latest image found that the dust and ice that make up the space rock resemble the materials that comprise other comets that formed within our solar system, suggesting ...

Astronomers were fascinated after spotting an object from interstellar space hurtling through the solar system earlier this ...

Astronomers have recently detected a colossal object at the edge of our solar system, sparking excitement and curiosity within the scientific community. This discovery could provide crucial insights ...

The main working hypothesis for the Mercury problem says that the planet is the victim of a collision with a different-sized object. The cataclysmic collision stripped much of the planet's mantle and ...

The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as it traveled through our solar system — and how other distant solar systems ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

NASA has thrown cold water on Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb's theory that interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by ...

3I/ATLAS was captured by the Gemini North telescope in Maunakea, Hawaii, revealing the comet’s compact coma. International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/K ...