Almost one year on from its discovery, the latest analysis of observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS continues to add richness to this object – as well as challenging what we know about not just ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS may have ended its journey through the solar system, but not before the Webb space telescope got one last glimpse of the rare interstellar visitor on its way out. Webb’s detailed ...

Social media rumours claim interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling towards Earth, with some even suggesting it's alien tech.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Strange isotope signals in 3I/ATLAS suggest the interstellar comet formed around an ancient, metal-poor star. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar traveler, visiting our solar system from another part of the galaxy. While its place of origin remains a mystery, astronomers believe it was formed under conditions ...

Newswise — As interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS began moving away from the Sun in December 2025, astronomers took the opportunity to turn NASA’s powerful James Webb Space Telescope in its direction and ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.

Comet 3I/Atlas is now heading out of the solar system and into interstellar space, but scientists are still analyzing the data it left behind as it passed through our cosmic neighborhood. A new study, ...

3I/ATLAS captured by Satoru Murata using Celestron EdgeHD 800 telescope. The cosmos often feels like a closed loop, a clockwork mechanism of familiar planets and moons that have danced together for ...

Ah, good ol’ 3I/ATLAS. How I miss writing about you a few days a week. You were a fun comet. You were a bit of a freak. You came from beyond our solar system, exhibiting all sorts of weird-o behaviors ...

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Interstellar comet contains an unusually high amount of methanol, and new data indicate that it was born in a very cold and ...