China’s Tianwen 1 orbiter has once again made cosmic history by capturing rare images of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed near Mars earlier this October. Released by the China National ...

Mars orbiters have given astronomers an unexpected new vantage point on 3I/ATLAS, sharply tightening estimates of the interstellar visitor’s trajectory through the inner solar system. By combining ...

Since comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object, was discovered on 1 July 2025, astronomers worldwide have worked to predict its trajectory. ESA has now improved the comet's predicted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An intriguing interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS is, as of now, on the opposite side of the sun from Earth – making it ...

The arrival of an interstellar comet is a truly momentous astronomical event, but witnessing one up close, from the orbit of another planet? That is the stuff of science fiction. Yet, this remarkable ...

The space community is buzzing after NASA released fresh, close-up images of the rare and wildly viral interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, giving us an unprecedented look at an object that originated far ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in early October. At the time, ...

NASA released new images of 3I/ATLAS as it plunged towards the sun, captured by a host of the agency’s robots and probes. A camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of ...

When the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter pointed its surface-imaging camera deep into space on October 3, 2025 — the first time any spacecraft orbiting another planet had ever ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has spent the last several months on a tour of our solar system. NASA spacecraft and telescopes have snapped photos of this celestial visitor over the course of its journey ...

As our solar system’s interstellar visitor hides behind the Sun, humankind’s expeditions to Mars have stepped up to provide an extra set of eyes. On Tuesday, the European Space Agency announced that ...

Because the spacecraft are equipped with cameras that aren't designed to observe an object so far away, the images they captured were fuzzy. Still, scientists were able to get a little bit of a look ...