The ion tail appeared as Comet C/2025 R3 PanSTARRS was about 45 million miles from Earth (72 million kilometers) during its closest approach.
Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known and fastest interstellar object to fly across the Solar System, is at it again. The latest oddity shown by this comet is how it is spewing dust. As they get closer to ...
A bold hypothesis is now gripping the astronomy world: Harvard theoretical physicist Avi Loeb claims that the interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS shows 'no tail'—and suggests it could be 'something else' ...
A famous comet visiting from outside our solar system known as 3I/ATLAS is blazing through our cosmic neighborhood, leaving a striking trail in its wake. A ground telescope in Chile recently glimpsed ...
In November 2025, two spacecraft on opposite sides of an interstellar comet did something no observatory on or near Earth ...
Astronomers and students working together through a unique educational initiative have obtained a striking new image of the growing tail of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. The observations reveal a ...
A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on Aug. 27 using one of the telescopes at the ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescope ...