Comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar visitor, is visible this week as it departs the solar system, with some public events ...

Comet 3I/Atlas is believed to have originated from the Oort Cloud, a distant region filled with icy bodies that lie at the outer reaches of our solar system. This ancient reservoir of comets serves as ...

ESA's advanced XMM-Newton telescope discovered a faint X-ray glow from the 3I/ATLAS comet. What is this mysterious light it ...

I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS nears Earth with a bizarre 'anti-tail' and 14 anomalies. Is it a comet or alien tech?

In 1994, the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet smashed into Jupiter with a force equal to 300 million atomic bombs.