Even by the strange standards of interstellar visitors, 3I/ATLAS is turning into a real cosmic outlier. Discovered on July 1, 2025 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile, this Manhattan-sized interloper — ...

This is a tale as old as time, or at least as old as the space age: a strange object flies into our solar system, telescopes focus, and before the scientific community can confirm the data, the ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a sigh of relief. Echoing what NASA officials have long said, a team of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chief Transportation Correspondent MayCay Beeler talks with Harvard Professor and astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb about the intrigue ...

An astrophotograph of the interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS highlights its green coma and a wandering blue-tinted ion tail. (Copyright Victor Sabet and Julien De ...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.