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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 ...
Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object racing through our Solar System -- only the third ...
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 ...
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 ...
Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a third interstellar object visiting our solar system, and it’s already sparking ...