The other two known interstellar comets did not offer such an opportunity.

I/ATLAS is the third interstellar visitor ever to visit the solar system having been formed around a distant star.

A Spanish telescope has detected a new comet for the first time in over 40 years, a rare scientific milestone confirmed by ...

When interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS exhibited some peculiar movements, speculation arose regarding potential alien origins. But the research doesn't agree.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now barreling away from the sun, never to return to the solar system. There's one more chance ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the ...

When an interstellar comet goes behind the Sun from the Earth’s perspective, science does not hit pause it relocates. In the ...

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

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center shared the images of comet 3I/ATLAS. It's possibly as big as Manhattan, likely older than our own solar system and it's traveling through space at speeds of up to ...

The comet, discovered in July 2025, originated far beyond our Solar System and is thought to be around 7 billion years old - even older than the Sun. View on euronews ...

Scientists confirmed that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which passed closest to Earth in December 2025, showed no ...

This comet could be part of the Kreutz family and is expected to flare dramatically as it sweeps past the Sun.