Last month, mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS came within just 18 million miles of Mars during its unusual trajectory through our solar system. During its approach, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance ...
Volunteer astronomers sifting through infrared images from a retired NASA telescope have spotted a faint object racing through space at roughly 1 million miles per hour, fast enough to eventually ...
A comet named 3I/ATLAS, which originated from outside our solar system, is currently hurtling through Earth's cosmic neighborhood. It is only the 3rd interstellar object ever discovered in our solar ...
Interstellar objects move too fast and arrive too rarely for astronomy to rely on a single instrument or a single kind of light. When comet 3I/ATLAS was first reported on July 1, 2025, observatories ...
NASA will release new images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on November 19. The object is only the third interstellar visitor ever spotted in our solar system. The comet will make its closest ...
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has officially activated its automated alert system, to explore and detect the object movements in space. The system went live on February 24 and generated ...