The US Space Force (USSF) has officially accepted the Advanced Tracking and Launch Analysis System (ATLAS) for operational use. Developed by L3Harris Technologies, ATLAS is a next-generation Space ...

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the discovery of just the third known interstellar object to visit our solar system ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has just done something no visitor from another star system has ever been caught doing: it lit up in X-rays. As its elongated orbit carries it through the inner solar ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here are all of your questions answered. When you purchase through links on our ...

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A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South at Cerro Pachón in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory and ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is now on its way out of our solar system, never to return. The comet was only the third-ever detected object to originate from outside our solar system. Traveling at high ...

Discovery: On July 2, 2025, astronomers confirmed Comet 3I/ATLAS, marking only the third interstellar object (ISO) ever detected passing through our Solar System, after 1I/ʻOumuamua (2017) and ...