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March 12, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmInterstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS is exceptionally alcoholicThis interstellar visitor is “bursting with methanol,” according to one scientistBy Jackie…

February 28, 20262 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmInterstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured speeding through the solar system by Jupiter-bound spacecraftThis mysterious interstellar visitor is on…

December 16, 20252 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAmHow to See Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS as It Swings by Earth One Last TimeThis week marks the…

November 19, 20252 min readNASA’s Latest Images Bring Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Into ViewNASA spacecraft across the inner solar system captured new views of Comet 3I/ATLAS—the third…

When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers were quickly able to determine was only…

Nature has interviewed a multitude of physicists this year in celebration of the 100th birthday of quantum mechanics. Although many of them disagree wildly about how…

In 2016 billionaire Yuri Milner hosted a press conference at One World Observatory, the atrium topping the slick skyscraper at the center of the rebuilt World…

Skywatchers at Nasa have discounted a Harvard astronomer’s hypothesis that a rare interstellar object hurtling through our solar system is a relic from a civilization in…

Aliens are visiting our solar system.Not little green men, sadly, but natural alien objects—cosmic bodies such as comets and asteroids born elsewhere in the galaxy that…

Earlier this month astronomers were thrilled to discover only the third known interstellar object ever seen in our solar system. Now dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the suspected comet…