You’re looking at a building block of someone else’s home, said planetary astronomer Karen Meech as the first calibrated images of comet 3I/ATLAS appeared on screens at the Gemini South Observatory.

A rare interstellar object, newly designated 3I/ATLAS, is currently sweeping through the solar system, NASA has confirmed. This is only the third confirmed visitor from beyond our solar system — a ...

Astronomers are tracking a newly discovered interstellar visitor called 3I/ATLAS, and early research suggests it may be unusually massive. The comet was first spotted on July 1, 2025, by the ATLAS ...

To probe the mysteries of how galaxies evolve over time, scientists needed a supercomputer with out-of-this-world computational power. These black holes—which range up to billions of times the sun's ...

Hubble captured this image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth.(NASA, ESA, David Jewitt (UCLA); Joseph DePasquale (STScI)) Astronomers ...

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news in July when it was confirmed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. One infamous theory even posited that the interstellar interloper, estimated to be ...

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A research team from the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has uncovered the origins of double-peaked narrow emission-line characteristics in galactic centers ...

"Wow!" "Wicked cool!!!" "Unbelievable shot!" "Lovely!!!" Those were just some of the comments in response to FLORIDA TODAY photographer Malcolm Denemark's breathtaking photograph of the Thursday, Sept ...

Another batch of Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband satellites has taken flight this morning (Sept. 25). A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket topped with 27 Project Kuiper craft lifted off ...