A team of astronomers has attempted to track the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS back into the past, tracing its path ...
What makes 3I/ATLAS especially intriguing is that the comet might be three billion years older than our entire Solar System.
Water is the universal yardstick of comet science, the baseline for measuring how sunlight drives a comet's activity and ...
Every once in a while, our solar system receives a fleeting visitor from the depths of our galaxy. On July 1, 2025, NASA’s ...
In a new study published on arXiv, a team determined that the interstellar comet could be older than the solar system's Sun. Researchers believe that the comet originated in the Milky Way Galaxy, but ...
As Universe Today reports, scientists have worked back the trajectory of the comet, known as 3I/ATLAS, back to what they believe to be its origin point, the galactic thick disk. 85% of the galaxy's ...
NASA’s Swift telescope spotted signs of water on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS - proof that water flows far beyond our solar ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS does not come from our corner of the Milky Way, and may be a time capsule of the early galaxy ...
The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously ...