What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

Once a realm of imagination and stargazing, the Solar System has now been revealed in stunning clarity through decades of ...

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet Center of comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025.

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

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...

The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the ...

The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a ...

Astronomers have confirmed that a recently spotted object is an interstellar visitor, and appears to have come from the ...

A quiet, glowing gas cloud has been hiding in plain sight not far from Earth. For decades, astronomers have predicted that some of the galaxy’s molecular gas — the fuel for star birth — might be ...