Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object ever recorded, is currently passing through our solar system. Discovered on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS survey, this rare visitor from another galaxy is being studied by NASA.

I/ATLAS anomalies and enormous kinetic energy update highlights seven unusual features of the interstellar object studied by Prof. Avi Loeb. The objects size, composition and trajectory suggest non-natural origins.

Scientists have studied the so-called Chicxulub impact for decades but only on millennia timescales. For the first time, researchers have zeroed in on when the asteroid or comet walloped Earth, and they say it happened on an otherwise pleasant spring day. This could help explain why some dinosaur species survived and others perished.

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