Learn more about the unique ice grains from comet 3I/ATLAS and how they may hold clues to the building blocks of planets.

A Southwest Research Institute–led study used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine ice grains streaming from ...

But not in the way you'd expect.

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS brought material from another planetary system within reach of our telescopes, but reading ...

The interstellar object "3I/ATLAS," which flew into the solar system in 2025 and is now quietly moving away, has been the ...

JWST observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveal micron-sized, dust-rich water ice grains whose spectra resemble icy ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS JWST spectroscopy reveals water ice in tiny, dust-mixed submicron grains spectrally matching ...

Twelve NASA missions have captured detailed views of comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar visitor, as it travels ...

Analysis of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS indicates solar heating stripped 1.7 to 5.2 meters from its surface, with potential erosion reaching 10 meters when dust ...

An interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS, which swept past the Sun in 2024, could be a 12‑billion‑year‑old relic from deep space and has even been described by a Harvard physicist as a possible alien ...

How does the dust of comet 3I/ATLAS, which came from outside the solar system, differ from the dust of solar system comets?When examining the vibration direction of light scattered by dust, 3I/ATLAS ...

ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has obtained new images of 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object discovered last week. Identified as a comet, 3I/ATLAS is only the third visitor from outside the Solar ...