For four months, social media has drawn skywatchers and lovers of galactic lure to a speck spotted in July. A new visitor from beyond our solar system University of Texas at Arlington Astrophysicist ...

3I/ATLAS is surrounded by “a complex jet structure,” new images show, sparking fresh speculation that the Manhattan-sized interstellar object could be an artificial alien craft. The images, captured ...

It flew too close to the Sun. Manhattan-sized comet 3I/ATLAS allegedly executed an unusual maneuver while approaching the Sun earlier this week, fueling theories that it could be an extraterrestrial ...

Is 3I/Atlas an interstellar alien vessel or simply an intriguing, unique rock hurling through the cosmos? That debate has been raging ever since the comet, only the third known interstellar object to ...

There's a new celebrity in town and it's... a comet. Much of the attention has to do with an astrophysicist's grandiose suggestions that 3I/ATLAS could contain alien life. Other scientists disagree.

A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news in July when it was confirmed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. One infamous theory even posited that the interstellar interloper, estimated to be ...

Harvard astronomer, Avi Loeb, speculates it could be an artificial alien object. NASA experts maintain that the object appears to be a natural comet with unique variations. Rare interstellar object 3I ...

Despite some similarities and speculation, the new comet likely originated from our solar system's Oort Cloud and is not directly connected to 3I/ATLAS. The comet will make its closest approach to ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a very different structure than comets in the solar system. Hydroxyl compounds ...