Researchers have discovered that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has been shedding water, providing insights into the building blocks of life outside of our solar system and the evolution of interstellar ...

The object was first detected by the ATLAS telescope system in Hawaii, originally appearing to be an ordinary comet. However, orbital calculations ...

Weeks after a rare interstellar comet made its closest pass to the sun, it will make it's closest pass to Earth. Comet 3I/ATLAS was first discovered in July via a regular sky survey by the Asteroid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The XMM-Newton observatory spotted a red X-ray glow around the interstellar comet on December 3. - ESA/XMM-Newton/C. Lisse; S.

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.

A new not-so-interstellar object is heading towards Earth. The comet has notoriously been linked to the 3I/ATLAS, an infamous interstellar comet. Although astronomers found some similarities between ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news in July when it was confirmed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. One infamous theory even posited that the interstellar interloper, estimated to be ...

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