When the news started to spread on July 1, 2025, about a new object that was spotted from outside our solar system, only the ...

After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

The NASA-funded ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) survey telescope in Rio Hurtado, Chile, first reported observations to the Minor Planet Center of comet 3I/ATLAS on July 1, 2025.