However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

A rare interstellar comet is flying through our solar system. Here's how—and when—you might be able to see Comet ATLAS from ...

Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...

When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves ...

A week and a half after its discovery, there are clues about the origin and age of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS – and ...

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

3I/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1, is a comet from interstellar space, meaning it originated in another star system and ...