The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS arrived looking like a routine icy visitor and then promptly started shredding the rulebook that astronomers use to understand these objects. From its skewed tail to ...

At hundreds of millions of kilometers from Earth, an interstellar comet has made an engineering-grade diagnostic: a measurable X-ray glow that traces the exact boundary where the Sun’s particle stream ...

During a special observation run earlier this month, NASA’s TESS space telescope recorded the interstellar comet’s subtle glow and tail, adding to archived observations that may reveal clues about ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the ...

A cosmic traveler from beyond our solar system is giving scientists an unprecedented show, and the discoveries keep getting more intriguing by the day. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, officially ...