Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a cosmic first for this decade, astronomers have identified a mysterious comet from another galaxy — ...

A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it could be more than 3 billion years older than the solar system.

On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...