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U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.
On the subject of Comet 3I's unnaturalness, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has admitted to having concerns about the discovery in ...
The space telescope obtained some details about the third recent interstellar visitor.
On August 11, 2025, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb sparked global intrigue by proposing that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, by NASA’s ATLAS telescope in Chile, may be ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS has been observed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which delivered new insights into this third interstellar ...
Hubble telescope captures third interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS showing active dust coma racing through solar system.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed 3I/ATLAS, only the third known object from outside our solar ...
New Hubble data on the 3I/ATLAS interstellar comet points to it having a nucleus between 1,000 feet and 3.5 miles, speed at ...
A cosmic visitor is stirring up an earthly debate. A Harvard University astrophysicist has suggested the incoming ...
Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has warned the Earth needs to be prepared incase this space object turns out to be a threat ...
Massive interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, larger than Manhattan, shows unusual glow pattern and planetary alignment that Harvard physicist calls potentially technological.