What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

Astronomers have detected a third interstellar object, named 3I/ATLAS. Preliminary studies suggest it may originate from a specific part of the Milky Way's galactic disk.

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have identified what they think is an interstellar object — and it could be ...

Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed. The object -- likely a comet -- was first detected in data collected between ...