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Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...
New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it ...
Astronomers using the observatory in Hanle, Ladakh, have successfully photographed the interstellar comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), ...
It's out of this world. Or, more accurately, this solar system.On July 1, astronomers discovered an object near the orbit of Jupiter that was somewhat peculiar. It had a strange orbit, one that didn't ...
I/ATLAS isn't just fascinating because it is the third interstellar visitor found in the solar system; new research suggests ...
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...
Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...
Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last ...
After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...
Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...
The comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object and is likely 3 billion years older than our own solar system.
Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...