The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reobserved interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on 30 November with its Wide Field Camera 3 instrument. At the time, the comet was about 286 million kilometers from Earth.

3I/ATLAS is definitely a comet, not an alien spacecraft, but it is only the third confirmed interstellar object detected in our solar system, and may be as much as 7 billion years old, so it is still ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the ...

Space scientists have released a new image of the enigmatic space rock that traveled through our solar system. Researchers revealed the photograph shows the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS - speculated to ...

Scientists confirmed that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which passed closest to Earth in December 2025, showed no detectable technosignatures strong enough to suggest it is an alien spacecraft.