Comet C/2025 R3 is generating excitement in the new year as it is set to reach its closest point to Earth in April. It is a ...

After passing Earth, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly close to Jupiter and its moon Eupheme in March 2026, marking a key moment in its outbound journey ...

Discovered in July, 3I/ATLAS is not your average comet – it’s a giant snowball from beyond our solar system. The comet, ...

The theory, spearheaded by astronomer Michele Bannister and her investigative team at the University of Canterbury in New ...

At 3.51 au from the Sun well beyond the region where water ice normally drives strong cometary activity 3I/ ATLAS still ...

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The most startling revelation regarding 3I/ATLAS concerns its age. Associate Professor Michele Bannister of the University of ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has flagged at least 16 anomalies in his handful of studies so far. While speculations abound ...

The 3I/ATLAS threw off over 13.5 million metric tons of water in the month after perihelion, a plume so large that it caused ...

Astronomers tracking 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object ever observed, say new measurements of its water loss ...

Cloud-9 entered the picture in 2023, when astronomers using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in ...

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of cosmic object, a cloud of dark matter and gas ...