Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...

The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever ...

New photos, including a striking technicolor timelapse, show off the newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it ...

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

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

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is expected to make its closest pass by the Sun on Oct. 30, when it will fly 130 million miles inside the ...

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

New findings about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveal its surprising size, possible thick disk origin, and what makes it ...

Scientists are observing a unique interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, currently passing through our solar system. This is only the third such object ever detected.

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