New findings about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveal its surprising size, possible thick disk origin, and what makes it ...

A controversial new paper questions whether the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is a potentially dangerous alien probe, similar ...

However, new research has shown this potentially "water ice-rich" visitor could be even more extraordinary than initially ...

Most comets, including the well-known Halley's, loop through our solar system like cosmic time capsules that formed alongside ...

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it could be more than 3 billion years older than the solar system.

A global team mapped over 100,000 structural variants in human genomes by applying Oxford Nanopore long-read sequencing and a ...

Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

Scientists now say an interstellar comet discovered earlier this month could be one of the oldest that astronomers have ever ...

Researchers at Oxford have discovered that comet 3I/ATLAS may be over 7 billion years old, making it the oldest one we've ...

A mysterious object, first observed hurtling across the solar system on July 1, has now been identified as "very likely to be ...

We've only known about its existence for a few short weeks, and already astronomers have been able to learn a lot about the ...

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...