Even the most ambitious scientific theories can be humbled by the vast, silent emptiness of deep space. For months, astronomers have been trying to figure out what 3I/ATLAS is, an interstellar ...

A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South at Cerro Pachón in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory and ...

Stargazers and scientists are getting a holiday present from the cosmos this week. 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet, will get “closest” to Earth on Friday, December 19, as part of its journey across ...

A provocative latest essay by Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has reignited debate over whether interstellar objects passing ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper and ESA’s JUICE captured opposite sides of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at the same time, revealing strange chemistry inside it.

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James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

The second wave of observations, conducted since December 2025, have allowed scientists to better characterize the chemical ...

Weeks after a rare interstellar comet made its closest pass to the sun, it will make it’s closest pass to Earth. The comet has traveled billions of miles through other systems in space. Its orbit is ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest point to our world Dec. 19 and people will be able to observe it from home with telescopes on the ground, according to NASA. Since it was ...