Last month, the European Space Agency used five of the science instruments attached to its JUICE spacecraft to examine ...

Now, Harvard scientist Avi Loeb has added a new and surprising idea: the tail of 3I/ATLAS may not be a normal tail at all. Instead, he thinks it could be made up of a swarm of unknown objects ...

Because of these strange features, experts say the tail does not look like it is made from the usual dust and gas that most comets release. On top of that, the tail becomes dim very quickly, which is ...

A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on Aug. 27 using one of the telescopes at the ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS exhibits a bright, extended ion tail while releasing gas and dust as it travels through the inner solar system. A stunning new image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 ...

All eyes are on the sky, as the exocomet will fly by Earth, the closest ever, at 1.7 AU on December 19. It will soon be ...

The tail of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is seen in the imagery captured by the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on ...

A new image shows the growing tail of a comet from another star system streaking across our solar system. The image of comet 3I/ATLAS was captured on Aug. 27 using one of the telescopes at the ...

A different study by scientist Matthew Hopkins at the University of Oxford and colleagues, used a model that focused on the ...

Astronomers have captured spectacular images of a comet, C/2025 K1 (ATLAS), breaking apart in three large pieces during its journey.

Sometime in 2029, the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its Comet Interceptor Mission. The Interceptor will wait ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Telescope observations reveal a growing tail on the comet that’s visiting from another star. Released Thursday, the pictures taken by the Gemini South telescope in Chile ...