A comet that has taken astronomers by surprise could shine as brightly as Venus in the night sky as it passes by Earth over the next few days. Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) was spotted in April last year by ...
NASA will livestream new 3I/ATLAS images today, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, amid increased public interest in the mystery of the interstellar object after Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the ...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.
Comet 3I/ATLAS was imaged and studied simultaneously by the Juice and Europa Clipper spacecraft as it flew past the Sun ...
The comet is the 3rd interstellar object ever detected and got its name from the ATLAS telescope that discovered it. NASA officials have rejected conspiracy theories that the object could be an alien ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and an ESA orbiter bound for Jupiter both recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS. The comet will make its closest approach to Earth in December but poses no threat and is not visible ...