When a comet leaves the Sun's warmth, astronomers typically anticipate its slow dimming into the darkness of space. However, the behavior of 3I/ATLAS has surprised the scientific community: ...

Massive interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, larger than Manhattan, shows unusual glow pattern and planetary alignment that Harvard ...

Observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show increased water, carbon dioxide, and organic gas release after its passage near the Sun, based on data from NASA’s SPHEREx mission ...

The arrival of 3I/ATLAS in our solar system spawned multiple proposals for a rendezvous mission to study it up close. As the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected, the wealth of information ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists were surprised to note that 3I/ATLAS brightened much faster than they anticipated during its perihelion last week.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is on the opposite side of the sun from Earth - but several spacecraft are in the perfect position to ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was full-on erupting into space in December 2025, after its close flyby of the sun, causing it to significantly brighten. Even water ice was quickly sublimating into gas in ...

Aug. 11—Famous for finding gold-filled shipwrecks and sunken submarines, a Spokane firm's latest discovery may have come from the cosmos. Williamson & Associates, a deep-sea engineering firm based in ...

An interstellar object roughly the size of Manhattan has captured scientists’ attention — and one prominent Harvard astrophysicist believes it could be something far beyond natural. According to the ...

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Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb claims humanity missed a historic chance to find alien life on interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, warning it may have been a spacecraft on a seeding mission.

This will be your best chance to see 3I/ATLAS in the night sky. Never-before-seen images of 3I/ATLAS capture the comet's ghostly beauty. Sorry to burst your bubble. The comet has reached ...