No one knows where the comet came from. It’s like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second. You can’t project ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth on Friday, Dec. 19. The comet will pass within about 170 million miles of our planet and poses no danger. While not visible to the naked ...
A comet from another star system is putting on a show that looks uncannily like a heartbeat, with bright jets of gas and dust switching on and off in a steady rhythm. New NASA images of Comet 3I/ATLAS ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS is just the third observed interstellar object ever witnessed in Earth's solar system. The Gemini South telescope in Chile is the latest observatory to get a glimpse of the object as it ...