What can be known when a comet which never was of the Sun, crosses the instrumented surface of the Solar System, momentarily?

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 ...

According to Michele Bannister, there are a myriad of these little worlds in our Solar System as of now. We simply cannot see ...

Discover the latest findings on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, from rare methane detections to high-resolution Hubble images, as it begins its final exit from our solar system.

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 ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s ...

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Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on December 19, coming within just 167 million miles. Scientists have been closely monitoring the object — which is largely ...

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Weeks after a rare interstellar comet made its closest pass to the sun, it will make it’s closest pass to Earth. NASA’s Psyche mission acquired four observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS over ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Weeks after a rare interstellar comet made its closest pass to the sun, it will make it’s closest pass to Earth. The comet has traveled billions of miles through other systems in space. Its orbit is ...