Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins ...

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it ...

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

The study was recently presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Durham, England where researchers revealed that the comet may have originated from the Milky Way 's ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

How does a 15-kilometer-wide comet, moving at 152,000 miles per hour, slip into our solar system undetected until a global ...

You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...