NASA is defending its official, fuzzy images of Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by its powerful HiRISE camera, even as amateur astronomers are now releasing substantially sharper views of the mysterious ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the stars over a week before it was officially ...

JUICE and the Hubble Space Telescope turned their gazes towards the interstellar visitor in November. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has gone from obscure visitor to front‑page mystery, as a cascade of new images reveals behavior that does not fit comfortably inside existing comet playbooks. Jets that ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a deeper look at interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, as it zoomed through the solar system on Nov. 30. The Wide Field Camera 3 ...

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Scientists used the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii to obtain images of the third-ever detected interstellar object, Comet 3I/ATLAS, on Nov. 26, 2025. Credit: NSF NOIRLab In the spirit of the season, ...

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As the comet heads toward its closest pass by Earth, a team led by NASA astrochemist Martin Cordiner used the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile to study the gases streaming off its ...

A new study of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS led by the University of Michigan shows that its water has a remarkably high content of deuterium. This form of hydrogen is comparatively less abundant ...