“3I/ATLAS presents a new opportunity to study an interstellar object, and observations in X-ray light will complement other observations to help scientists figure out what it is made of,” ESA ...

By taking advantage of a maneuver that would see a spacecraft fire rocket engines while in the solar corona, that ...

The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked intrigue in the scientific community after NASA's SPHEREx spacecraft detected organic compounds, including methane and cyanide.

A comet from another star system is sweeping through our cosmic backyard and, for the first time, astronomers have picked up a clear radio signal coming from it. The object, known as Comet 3I/ATLAS, ...

For millions of years, a frozen wanderer drifted between the stars before slipping into our solar system as 3I/ATLAS—only the third known interstellar comet ever spotted. When scientists turned NASA’s ...

An international team of scientists has examined dust grains gathered by the NASA Stardust spacecraft and brought back to Earth – and has discovered that they originated in the interstellar dust ...

An interstellar comet racing through our solar system released methanol, methane and cyanide, NASA says. Could these life linked molecules hint at how worlds across the cosmos are seeded?