Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a third interstellar object visiting our solar system, and it’s already sparking ...

Folks, it's official: the object that astronomers recently spotted blowing through the outer solar system came from ...

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet Center of comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025.

Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...

An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.

A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual, hyperbolic trajectory. If ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth, but media reports too often ignore the unlikelihood of impact in reports of near-Earth asteroids, a Tucson astronomer says.

When asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered in December 2024 and reported to the Minor Planet Center, it made headlines due to its unusually high 3.1% chance of impacting Earth; the highest ever ...