What can be known when a comet which never was of the Sun, crosses the instrumented surface of the Solar System, momentarily?
Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and ...
For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the ...
Observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show increased water, carbon dioxide, and organic gas release after its passage near the Sun, based on data from NASA’s SPHEREx mission ...
Interstellar comets are the original cosmic explorers, and by studying their metallic whispers, we are learning the secrets ...
Is 3I/ATLAS just a comet — or an intergalactic ark? A NASA spacecraft has discovered organic chemicals on 3I/ATLAS, which ...
Scientists found new evidence (or lack thereof) disproving the conspiracy theory that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is alien technology.
NASA's infrared telescope SPHEREx captured stunning images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it exited the solar system.
The latest data from the Webb telescope (reported here) indicates that the plume of gas and dust surrounding 3I/ATLAS contains water (H₂O), carbon dioxide (CO₂), carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH₄) ...
Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But ...
New infrared observations reveal that the rare interstellar visitor known as comet 3I/ATLAS has dramatically brightened during its farewell tour of the solar system.
A DOOMED comet has been pictured breaking apart less than a year after it was first spotted The crumbling comet whizzed past ...