A new scientific paper is drawing attention because it puts forward an unexpected idea about a space object called 3I-ATLAS. Some scientists now question whether this object, which came into our solar ...

Chadderton-born Professor Brian Cox has spoken out about claims that an interstellar object could be an alien spacecraft ...

STARRS Observatory in Hawaii made history in 2017 when they detected 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object (ISO) ever ...

No one knows where the comet came from. It’s like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second,” said David Jewitt, ...

This week, astronomers have documented the occurrence of an unprecedented stellar death unlike anything seen before.

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked debate among astronomers since its discovery, and some are exploring whether it ...

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.

“They happen to be very close to each other in the sky right now,” he says. “The closest approach was actually this (Tuesday) ...

On the subject of Comet 3I's unnaturalness, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has admitted to having concerns about the discovery in ...

The space telescope obtained some details about the third recent interstellar visitor.

The 3I/ATLAS, which was first spotted on July 1, has the fastest velocity of any solar system visitor to date, NASA says. The comet’s 130,000 mph speed is nearly 100 times the speed of some bullets.