Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

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

Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...

Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last ...

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

Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...

The comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object and is likely 3 billion years older than our own solar system.

Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...

The comet was discovered by the NASA -funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey telescope in Chile ...