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 ...

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 ...

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is the gift that keeps on giving. A snapshot of space that lies beyond the solar system, it brings clues to our understanding of other stars, other worlds and the galaxy we ...

As 3I/ATLAS passes near the sun, methanol gas glows blue, mixed with icy dust grains, while the far side of the comet glows orange with hydrogen cyanide in this artist's rendering. Credit: NSF / AUI / ...

Comet 3I/Atlas is now heading out of the solar system and into interstellar space, but scientists are still analyzing the data it left behind as it passed through our cosmic neighborhood. A new study, ...