Unlike comets such as Halley’s, which formed alongside the solar system, interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS are thought to have originated in distant and ancient regions of the galaxy. ORIGINS IN THE ...

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The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

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For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...

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What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

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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.