The James Webb Space Telescope observed a large amount of methane around 3I/ATLAS, revealing just how different it is from ...

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an ...

Scientists failed to find radio signals emanating from interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, further bolstering its status as a ...

A comet from another star system does not arrive every year. That is part of what made 3I/ATLAS so compelling when it ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was almost called 3I/Rubin, after researchers found that the giant survey telescope coincidentally spotted this visitor from the stars over a week before it was officially ...

The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear. The SETI Institute said ...

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 ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object identified by NASA as a comet, will swing by Earth in its closest approach this week. Scientists have been tracking the comet’s grand tour of our solar system since it ...

An interstellar comet first spotted passing through our solar system in July is beginning its departure from our corner of the universe — but first it will fly by Earth, and scientists are capturing ...

When Comet 3I/ATLAS entered our solar system last year—only the third known interstellar object to do so—astronomers took ...