The comet will come closest to Earth on Oct. 20. There's hope that it may become bright enough to glimpse with the naked eye.

The images of Comet 3I/ATLAS were captured by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile on Aug. 27 as the icy ...

New images reveal interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS beginning to grow a signature tail as it zooms closer to the sun ahead of a ...

New photos captured during the recent "blood moon" total lunar eclipse show that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be ...

The comet is known as 3I-Atlas and is currently 238 million miles from Earth. According to NASA, the comet is expected to ...

A telescope in Chile recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS' glowing tail, which observations reveal has grown as the interstellar object ...

Gemini South caught Comet 3I/ATLAS “switching on,” as students and astronomers joined to see dust, gas, chemistry from ...

Nasa scientists dismiss claims about Comet 3I/Atlas. A Harvard astronomer had suggested it might be alien tech. The comet was ...

NASA has firmly debunked a Harvard astronomer's suggestion that an interstellar comet passing through our solar system might ...

But over the summer, 3I/ATLAS, has plunged toward the inner solar system—and the fireworks show has begun in earnest. When ...

Water found on Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is "virtually indistinguishable" from water found on Earth. A "devil" comet's water is ...

A recently discovered comet will soon make an appearance in the night sky for the first time in 50,000 years. Discovered on March 2, 2022, by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility's ...