The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has shifted from a routine curiosity to a physics puzzle, as NASA and other teams report that it is not moving exactly the way gravity alone predicts. As it swept past ...
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Comet 3I/ATLAS and comet SWAN seen from NASA's PUNCH
NASA’s PUNCH was tracking comet SWAN when 3I/ATLAS whizzed past. Credit: NASA/Southwest Research Institute ...
Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar system. But it may not be around much longer. The otherworldly visitor to ...
I thought about the interstellar visitor as my daughter, wife, and I took turns dragging his wandering monster truck balloon ...
New evidence suggests that the famous interstellar traveler may be so old that its home system no longer exists.
The comet has been on our radars since the summer of 2025, when the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) ...
NASA's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) was built for the ambitious purpose of performing an all-sky survey. The data it collects ...
Is 3I/ATLAS just a comet — or an intergalactic ark? A NASA spacecraft has discovered organic chemicals on 3I/ATLAS, which Harvard scientist Avi Loeb claims raises the possibility that the comet is an ...
For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s ...
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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...
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