When interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile on July 1, 2025, it quickly attracted attention for more than just being the third known object from outside the ...
The view coming back from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has a way of turning familiar categories of comet science slightly awkward. 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object only briefly passing through th...
In Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, astronauts land on a planet orbiting close to a black hole. They spend a few hours on its surface. When they return to their spacecraft, they discover that 23 year...
Interstellar objects usually pass through quietly, noticed only by a small group of astronomers before fading back into deep space. Comet 3I/ATLAS has followed a different path. Even as it moves away ...