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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.

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

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

I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever detected. You can stream the object live today, or maybe see it from your ...

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