For the first time, a fleet of orbiters and a rover circling another world has captured detailed views of an interstellar visitor as it swept through the inner solar system. As comet 3I/ATLAS brushed ...

The HiRISE orbiter successfully photographed interstellar comet 3I/Atlas during its high-speed journey past the red planet, offering scientists their closest view yet A camera designed to study 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 ...

A NASA probe that had a close encounter with a strange object from another solar system has been declared dead and scientists ...

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) two satellites and several NASA spacecraft at and near Mars zoomed in on the comet as it passed the red planet just 29 million kilometres away last month. NASA ...

A newly discovered comet, C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS), could be the brightest of its kind visible from Earth in 2026. The comet will make its closest approach to the sun on April 19 and its closest approach ...