Astronomers just caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet as it zoomed past Mars. Images of the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, were captured by two of the the European Space Agency's Mars orbiters -- ...

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I/ATLAS, only the third object from beyond our solar system ever spotted from Earth, was viewed from Mars by an orbiting European spacecraft.

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The object, named 3I/ATLAS, was first spotted by NASA on 1 July 2025. It is only the third confirmed interstellar visitor after ‘Oumuamua in 2017 and 2I/Borisov in 2019. Classified as a comet, ...