The paper presented several anomalous characteristics of the object, which could indicate that it is not a comet at all but ...

A comet that was born in another solar system and could be billions of years old is hurdling through Earth’s solar system — a ...

"We should put all possibilities on the table that it's a rock, a comet, or something else until we get the evidence, the ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has cowritten a research paper speculating whether the comet 3I/ATLAS is in fact "hostile" ...

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile recently captured rare footage of the visitor known as 3I/ATLAS — only the third interstellar object discovered. What’s more impressive: The observatory ...

Nearly a month ago, a mysterious object was seen hurtling through the solar system and later confirmed as an interstellar ...

A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar ...

I/ATLAS is just the third recorded interstellar object to enter the solar system. However, the scientific consensus is that ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here ...

Avi Loeb: 'the orbit of 3I/ATLAS coincides with the plane of the Earth by only 5 degrees - the probability of such a ...

The space rock 3I/ATLAS is only the third confirmed interstellar object discovered by astronomers, following 'Oumuamua and ...

Any suggestion that it’s artificial is nonsense on stilts, and is an insult to the exciting work going on to understand this ...