The comet is described as a spinning mass of ice, rock and dust, hurtling through space on a path that thankfully poses no threat to Earth. At its closest point, 3 Eye Atlas will remain approximately ...

UCF has played a yearly Space Game since 2017. Could an annual "Space Cup" rivalry against the Houston Cougars be next?

The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...

“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

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

Scientists found low-density amorphous ice in space isn’t fully random - it hides tiny crystals, reshaping our understanding ...

The Universe’s most abundant ice isn’t formless—it’s secretly laced with crystals. And that might change how we think about ...

A rare interstellar comet is flying through our solar system. Here's how—and when—you might be able to see Comet ATLAS from ...

Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.

Hopkins and Lintott are two of the six authors of a new paper that uses the new model to trace the origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS, and it appears to be coming from a completely different region of the ...

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.

The total cost of the project was about two thousand dollars. The small Ozma team used a chart recorder and a loudspeaker to ...