The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in Rio Hurtado first spotted the object ...

The comet should be visible by telescope through September, before it gets too close to the sun, and reappear in December on ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have identified what they think is an interstellar object — and it could be ...

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...

An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.

The C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) comet, which was discovered early last year, reached the point in its orbit where it’s nearest to the sun on January 13. For the first time in 160,000 years, the comet was ...

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) photographed by Samit Saha of Bidada, Gujarat, India on Jan. 17, 2025. "Even after capturing several frames, I couldn't spot the comet on my camera's LCD screen.

It's called Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) and for the past few nights it has been putting on a show for Australian star-gazers. But it can't go on forever — especially because astronomers now think ...

New photos of comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) suggest that it could be disintegrating due to "thermal stress" from its recent slingshot around the sun. However, its fate is still unclear.

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) did it! It survived its perilous perihelion, getting ten times closer to the Sun than Earth does. This comet is a sungrazer comet, and the encounter made it bright – so ...