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There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...
A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar ...
An object from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to whip around the sun in ...
Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it appears to be a comet and is thought to have flown in from the direction of ...
For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.
Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system. Preliminary observations suggest it came from interstellar space, and if confirmed, ...
A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the discovery of just the third known interstellar object to visit our solar system ...
Following the historic discoveries of ‘Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, astronomers have now confirmed the presence of a third ...
Meech (IfA/U. Hawaii) / Image Processing: Jen Miller & Mahdi Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) Astronomers unveiled a striking new view of the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS on its journey toward the inner solar ...
Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...