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

Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...

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

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

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from ...

The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar ...

A newly discovered object, dubbed A11pl3Z, appears to be moving too fast and straight to have originated in the solar system.

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

A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual, hyperbolic trajectory. If ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet Center of comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025.

The first interstellar object spotted in our Solar System was the cigar-shaped ‘Oumuamua, discovered in 2017 by the ...