Scientists who, studying the available data, have concluded that 3I/ATLAS is, to paraphrase, a comet doing comet things.
On July 1, 2025, astronomers at the ATLAS telescope in Chile identified a rare celestial visitor: comet 3I/ATLAS, officially ...
A new pre-print paper suggests that our latest interstellar visitor, comet 3I/ATLAS, may be headed for one final close encounter before it departs our Solar System in 2026. The paper, which focuses on ...
When a faint green smudge appeared in images from a backyard telescope in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on Nov. 22, 2025, astronomers did not expect it to upend basic assumptions about how comets work. Yet ...