Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

On July 1, 2025, a telescope in Chile detected something unexpected: a faint object streaking across the sky at an unusual ...

I/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), originated in a distant star system, far beyond the boundaries of our solar system.

Sometimes, "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency — the third time now since 2017. What is it and are ...

You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream views beginning at 6:00 p.m. EDT (2200 GMT).

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 ...

Astronomers have confirmed the presence of 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar comet originating from a distant star system, now traversing our solar system.

Astronomers do know that 3I/ATLAS is a comet that's about 670 million kilometers (416 million miles) away from the sun. Based on current projections, it poses no danger to planet Earth.

Space Interstellar comet hurtling through solar system named 3I/ATLAS An object from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to whip around the sun in ...

This diagram shows the trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes through the solar system. It will make its closest approach to the Sun in October. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

A Manhattan-sized interstellar comet, named 31/ATLAS, was spotted blazing through our solar system – marking only the third time a mysterious object from beyond our cosmic neighborhood has been ...

Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...