NASA has something new meant for the eyes of those who have been keenly following interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. The space agency announced that on Wednesday, November 19, 2025, at 3 p.m. EST, it will ...
A comet tearing through the inner solar system at roughly 58 kilometers per second formed between 10 and 12 billion years ago, according to isotopic measurements published this year. That would make ...
3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object identified by NASA as a comet, recently passed its closest point to the sun. Scientists around the world are observing its months-long journey to learn more about the ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope ...
WASHINGTON >> NASA released fresh images today of the interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS that astronomers have determined is a comet likely older than our solar system, as U.S. space agency officials ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, a cosmic rock first discovered by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...
The images, captured around Oct. 2-3, remain unreleased. Their delay is attributed to the federal government shutdown that began on Oct. 1, which furloughed NASA personnel and paused data processing, ...