A comet tail pointing toward the Sun sounds like a mistake-but that is exactly the geometry Comet 3I/ATLAS put on display as ...

It is not often that a comet defies one of the most fundamental visual cues in astronomy-but 3I/ATLAS has done exactly that. Instead of its dust and gas streaming away from the Sun, this interstellar ...

A famous comet visiting from outside our solar system known as 3I/ATLAS is blazing through our cosmic neighborhood, leaving a striking trail in its wake. A ground telescope in Chile recently glimpsed ...

Astronomers and students working together through a unique educational initiative have obtained a striking new image of the growing tail of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. The observations reveal a ...

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Comet 3I/ATLAS is drawing unusual attention because it doesn't behave the way most comets do in photographs and time-series imaging. As it heads back out of the inner solar system, astronomers are ...

A researcher has captured comet 3I/ATLAS glowing green and hiding its tail in a new image from the Lowell Observatory's powerful Discovery Telescope as we enter a critical observation phase for the ...

Back in July, scientists operating a planetary defense facility designed to detect potentially hazardous asteroids spotted a visitor from another star: an interstellar object, and the third of its ...

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 ...