On July 1, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope, located in northern Chile, ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

There are lots of objects floating around in our solar system, but one thing most have in common is a common origin, and then ...

The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first ...

A comet has entered the Solar System from interstellar space and will pass through the inner planets later this year, NASA ...