Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on Wednesday reached its closest point to the Sun, a point known as perihelion. Although this ...
Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is ...
When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers ...
Perihelion for 3I/ATLAS takes place on Oct. 30, when the interstellar interloper will be 1.35 astronomical units (125 million ...
A Harvard University professor has said that 3I/ATLAS experienced a sudden "nongravitational" acceleration while passing ...
Stargazers using telescopes should be able to see the object in the predawn sky beginning Nov. 11, according to EarthSky.
The 3I/ATLAS comet was first spotted in July near Jupiter after it entered our solar system from another universe. Here’s ...
Manhattan-sized comet 3I/ATLAS — which scientists suspect could have extraterrestrial origins — will reach its closest ...
I/ATLAS is the third interstellar object ever discovered in our solar system. Telescope observations suggest it is a roughly 7-mile-wide (11 kilometers) comet zooming at more than 130,000 mph (210,000 ...
Physicist Brian Cox has confirmed that Comet 3I/ATLAS — an interstellar traveller predating our Sun — is a natural object composed of ice, dust, and carbon dioxide, and not of extraterrestrial design.
JUICE might be bound to Jupiter, but it is fortuitously in place to peek at this object from beyond the stars.
After conjunction and perihelion, the comet has come out from behind the solar glare and the first image shared.