An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.

The third known visitor from another star system, Comet 3I/ATLAS, has been racing through the Solar System with just enough weirdness to ignite a familiar debate: is it natural or could it be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the ...

Our solar system's first known interstellar visitor may have a very violent origin story. The mysterious object 'Oumuamua, which was spotted zooming through the inner solar system in October 2017, is ...

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On November 1 st, the New York Post wrote “The Manhattan-sized interstellar object 3I/ATLAS exhibited signs of non-gravitational acceleration and appeared bluer than the Sun as it passed our local ...

3I/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object ever observed traveling through the solar system, following 1I/'Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. Each encounter has sparked fascination—and ...