The comet – named 3I/ ATLAS – was discovered this summer and led to excitement because it appears to be an interstellar comet ...

Astronomers have identified 3I/ATLAS, an ancient, ice-rich interstellar comet potentially older than our solar system.

Astronomers have discovered 3I/ATLAS, a potentially 7-billion-year-old comet, believed to carry secrets from before the solar system's inception.

A rare interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, is currently traversing our solar system, offering scientists a unique chance to ...

An interstellar comet with the wrong metals and a “chemical passport” from another sun? Meet 3I Atlas. In today’s video, we ...

For nearly five decades, NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft have ventured farther than any other human-made object, pushing ...

For most of its journey 3I/ATLAS has been frozen solid, but the warming rays of our Sun are enough to unfreeze some of its gases such as carbon dioxide, generating a faint cometary tail. For a period ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

After conjunction and perihelion, the comet has come out from behind the solar glare and the first image shared.

Physicist Brian Cox has confirmed that Comet 3I/ATLAS — an interstellar traveller predating our Sun — is a natural object composed of ice, dust, and carbon dioxide, and not of extraterrestrial design.

An astrophysicist claims there is important evidence about a suspected 'alien spaceship' which NASA is 'hiding' from us ...

Time is running short for scientists hoping to collect data from 3I/Atlas, a massive interstellar object hurtling away from the Sun.