Astronomers just caught a rare glimpse of an interstellar comet as it zoomed past Mars. Images of the object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS ...

The European Space Agency's two Mars orbiters take their shot at getting pictures of the exotic interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

Water is the universal yardstick of comet science, the baseline for measuring how sunlight drives a comet's activity and ...

The images offer the closest view yet of comet 3I/ATLAS, famous for being only the third known interstellar object to pass ...

Analyses of its emissions using NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory indicate that the interstellar comet probably has a very different structure than comets in the solar system.

The images taken by two Mars orbiters show a bright, fuzzy white dot of the comet, also known as 3I/ATLAS, appearing to move ...

For millions of years, a frozen traveler drifted in silence through the stars, carrying secrets from another world. This ...

"Though our Mars orbiters continue to make impressive contributions to Mars science, it's always extra exciting to see them ...

A yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper also reports that the third interstellar interloper has been seen releasing hydrogen cyanide, ...

Recently discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS have been captured using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large ...

An alien comet passing through our solar system made its closest approach to Mars recently, and two European robotic spacecraft orbiting the red planet turned to take a look.