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

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

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

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 ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

The comet is described as a spinning mass of ice, rock and dust, hurtling through space on a path that thankfully poses no threat to Earth. At its closest point, 3 Eye Atlas will remain approximately ...

The comet was identified as interstellar due to its highly eccentric hyperbolic orbit, which is unlike the elliptical orbits of native Solar System objects.

Interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered just a week ago and ever since, astronomers across the world have been ...

NASA's ATLAS telescope in Chile has detected a fast-moving interstellar comet, named 3I/Atlas, currently located 4.5 au from the Sun. This is only the third alien object observed in our solar system, ...