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NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...
The ATLAS (short for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) is a NASA-funded program developed by the University of ...
NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space ...
Officially named 3I/ATLAS, the comet was confirmed as having originated outside of Earth's solar system on July 3, according ...
There are lots of objects floating around in our solar system, but one thing most have in common is a common origin, and then ...
Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...
July 3 (UPI) -- NASA discovered the third interstellar comet through a survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile. The ...
You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...
A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...
NASA spots a new comet flying in from a distant star system. July 3, 2025 1:15 PM ET. Nell Greenfieldboyce This diagram shows the trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passes through the ...
NASA said the comet will make its closest approach to the sun in late October, scooting between the orbits of Mars and Earth — but closer to the red planet than us at a safe 150 million miles ...
NASA has named this latest interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, after detecting it this week with the NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile.