Interstellar invader Comet 3I/ATLAS is still full of surprises — an unexpected brightening has scientists baffled ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Wednesday reached its closest point to the Sun, a point known as perihelion. Although this ...

Perihelion for 3I/ATLAS takes place on Oct. 30, when the interstellar interloper will be 1.35 astronomical units (125 million ...

The cosmos never ceases to amaze, and the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is the latest celestial body to capture the attention of scientists and enthusiasts alike. As it made its closest approach to the ...

As a joke, she labelled it LGM 1 for “Little Green Men”, but the astronomers working on it did not really believe they had ...

When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers ...

A mysterious interstellar comet has reignited a fierce debate among astronomers, and now, Elon Musk has entered the fray.

I/ATLAS was recorded by several objects as it made its close pass by the sun this week which resulted in the jarring ...

Astronomers using NASA's Swift telescope detected water on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in a surprising location. Discover how ...

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth ...

The comet is on what’s known as a hyperbolic trajectory, which means that it doesn’t follow an orbital path around the sun.

Darryl Z. Seligman is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University.