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 ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ...

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