A peculiar interstellar visitor, 3I/ATLAS, is challenging comet theories with its sunward tail and unusual composition. While ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South at Cerro ...
A mysterious comet from beyond our solar system is giving astronomers a rare glimpse into alien worlds — and it may have formed in a place far colder and stranger than anything around our Sun. The ...
One year ago, on July 1, 2025, astronomers discovered a fascinating new object moving through the solar system. Detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the object was ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun and swung by Earth last year could be nearly three times older than our solar ...
A new Kreutz sungrazer was just reported to SOHO's citizen-science comet program — 5,200 discoveries in. Here's how the ...
This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. A new study of the interstellar comet ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS is an interstellar traveler, visiting our solar system from another part of the galaxy. While its place of origin remains a mystery, astronomers believe it was formed under conditions ...
An interstellar comet that blazed past the sun and swung by Earth last year could be nearly three times older than our solar system and is unlike anything ever before seen in our cosmic backyard, ...
Astronomers have revealed new details about the make-up and age of a visiting comet that was born around a distant star. They conclude that the composition of 3I/Atlas is strikingly different from any ...
Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically different from anything known to have ever formed around our sun Astronomers ...