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A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...
New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it ...
How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...
I/ATLAS isn't just fascinating because it is the third interstellar visitor found in the solar system; new research suggests ...
Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...
When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...
A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...
A strange interstellar object is racing toward our solar system, and while NASA says it’s a comet, a top Harvard scientist ...
After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...
Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last ...
Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...
The comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object and is likely 3 billion years older than our own solar system.