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

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

The European Southern Observatory has captured the clearest images yet of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS as it moves ...

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 ...

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...

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

The third object known to have entered the Solar System from interstellar space has an origin unlike either of its ...

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

The object — thought to be a comet — is only the third-ever confirmed interstellar visitor to pass through our cosmic ...

A rare interstellar comet is flying through our solar system. Here's how—and when—you might be able to see Comet ATLAS from ...