NASA's Hubble Space Telescope got an up-close look at a headline-grabbing object known as 3I/ATLAS that has wandered into ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...

Harvard astronomy department chair Dr. Avi Loeb has suggested that a recently discovered, Manhattan-sized interstellar object ...

You might be thinking about a giant trilobite found on Pluto, or maybe a dinosaur skeleton on the planet. However, when ...

I/ATLAS is just the third recorded interstellar object to enter the solar system. However, the scientific consensus is that ...

Scientists estimate the object to be more than 12-miles-wide, speeding at 37 miles-per-second, relative to the sun.

By Thursday, July 3, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center confirmed that an interstellar object was, indeed, traveling through our cosmic neighborhood, naming it 3I/ATLAS.

But after ATLAS reported it to the Minor Planet Center, Fuls’ team requested permission to use a larger telescope to gather more observations.

Data from observatories is sent to the Minor Planet Center, an international organization that collects information on asteroids and other small bodies in space. NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object ...

That, the researchers say, makes it the third-largest perihelion of objects listed in the International Astronomical Union Minor Planet Center with a semi-major axis (or mean distance from the sun) ...

However, citizen scientists with small telescopes can still make significant contributions, especially before and after perihelion, by submitting their observations to the UNISTELLAR network or ...