The most startling revelation regarding 3I/ATLAS concerns its age. Associate Professor Michele Bannister of the University of ...
Unlike the comets that call our solar system home, 3I/ATLAS is a cosmic nomad on a hyperbolic trajectory — a one-time flyby ...
What lies beyond Pluto and the Kuiper Belt? Today we explore the Oort Cloud a vast, invisible shell of trillions of icy ...
Among these celestial visitors — the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, along with C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) and C/2025 R2 (SWAN) — not ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1, 2025, by the NASA-funded ATLAS telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile and was quickly ...
Ernest Opik, an Estonian astronomer based at the Astronomical Observatory in Tartu from 1921-1944, commenced research on the frequencies and speeds of meteors and comets in the 1920s. In 1932, Opik ...
NEW YORK — Scientists have unlocked one of the solar system's many secrets from an unexpected source: a planetarium show opening to the public on Monday. At the American Museum of Natural History last ...