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China’s abrupt cessation of tracking the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS following its recent Mars flyby has left astronomers ...

New photos show that the recently discovered comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) developed a surprising golden glow after reaching its ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS was first detected on July 1, 2025 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). As it ...

While NASA has confirmed that 3I/ATLAS poses no threat to Earth, the mystery deepens as the comet prepares for its closest ...

Time now for an interstellar flyby. Let's meet a very old comet, 3I/ATLAS. DARRYL SELIGMAN: 3I/ATLAS is probably somewhere between 3 billion to 11 billion years old. So it's presumably been traveling ...

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) will observe interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in November, despite its primary mission to study Jupiter's moons.

A newly discovered asteroid just whizzed past Earth, marking the second-closest asteroid flyby on record, astronomers say. The asteroid flew over Antarctica just before 9 p.m. ET on Sept. 30, about ...

A rare green comet is passing by Earth and can be seen with the naked eye from Oklahoma – and the next shot to catch it won’t ...

If the hypothetical Taurid resonant swarm does occur, it will make a close flyby of Earth in 2032 and 2036. During those ...

Diagram showing the orbit of 2014 KH39. Yellow shows the portion of its orbit above the plane of Earth's orbit (grey disk); blue is below the plane. When farthest, the asteroid travels beyond Mars ...