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You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...
How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...
On July 1, 2025, a telescope in Chile detected something unexpected: a faint object streaking across the sky at an unusual ...
Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...
A comet has entered the Solar System from interstellar space and will pass through the inner planets later this year, NASA ...
But now 3I/ATLAS appears to be a comet like Borisov, the second interstellar object observed. For a comet, the brightness comes from sunlight bouncing off a plume of gas and dust known as a coma ...
Is the solar system an interstellar highway, with cosmic objects speeding past at warp speeds without human notice? That’s ...
Hopkins and Lintott are two of the six authors of a new paper that uses the new model to trace the origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS, and it appears to be coming from a completely different region of the ...
The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...
Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted comet hailing from parts unknown, only the third time such an interstellar object ...
Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the comet poses no danger to Earth and will remain roughly 150 million miles away as it speeds by.
July 3 (UPI) -- NASA discovered the third interstellar comet through a survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. The ...