The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived looking like a routine icy visitor and then promptly started shredding the rulebook that astronomers use to understand these objects. From its skewed tail to ...

Images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS snapped during the September 7 total lunar eclipse seem to suggest that the latest visitor to the Solar System may be turning green. That's not all that strange ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has turned into one of the strangest visitors in the recent history of the solar system, ...

During a special observation run earlier this month, NASA’s TESS space telescope recorded the interstellar comet’s subtle glow and tail, adding to archived observations that may reveal clues about ...

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 ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a recent study.

A Harvard astronomer is suggesting that an interstellar object nearing Earth could be an engineered object — rather than a natural one — after making similar claims in in 2023 and 2017. "The ...