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U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.
On the subject of Comet 3I's unnaturalness, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has admitted to having concerns about the discovery in ...
Scientists have proposed a six-word message to send to the interstellar object shooting through space before it reaches a ...
NASA has shared new details about 3I/ATLAS. It is an interstellar object moving at 209,000 km/h. Hubble images show it is ...
On August 11, 2025, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb sparked global intrigue by proposing that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, by NASA’s ATLAS telescope in Chile, may be ...
Hubble telescope captures third interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS showing active dust coma racing through solar system.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed 3I/ATLAS, only the third known object from outside our solar ...
New Hubble data on the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet points to it having a nucleus between 1,000 feet and 3.5 miles, speed at ...
A cosmic visitor is stirring up an earthly debate. A Harvard University astrophysicist has suggested the incoming ...
Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has warned the Earth needs to be prepared incase this space object turns out to be a threat ...
Massive interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, larger than Manhattan, shows unusual glow pattern and planetary alignment that Harvard ...