Comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) belongs to a rare group of sungrazing comets.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS stole our hearts in 2025. Discovered on July 1, and only the third known interstellar visitor, it ...

If C/2026 A1 (MAPS) survives its close encounter with the sun, it could blaze brightly enough to be seen from Earth.

New evidence suggests that the famous interstellar traveler may be so old that its home system no longer exists.

I/ATLAS may be more than the strangest space object astronomers have observed within our solar system—it could also be one of ...

Indeed, in the end, the tail might be all that is left to be seen of Comet MAPS.

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NASA’s PUNCH was tracking comet SWAN when 3I/ATLAS whizzed past. Credit: NASA/Southwest Research Institute ...

C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was on its way out of the solar system when it did the fateful thing that many comets do. Reading time 3 minutes In November 2025, a comet began disintegrating into pieces after a ...

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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains water and carbon molecules at levels never before seen in our solar system. This suggests that it formed around an alien star radically different from and much ...