"The consequences, should the hypothesis turn out to be correct, could potentially be dire for humanity," said Avi Loeb.

The long-serving space telescope saw the third interloper to enter the solar system from beyond its limits late on Monday ...

The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.

The photos reveal a bright and well-developed coma, the cloud of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus, with striking ...

Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is expected to make its closest pass by the Sun on Oct. 30, when it will fly 130 million miles inside the ...

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...