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New interstellar object 3I/ATLAS: Everything we know about the rare cosmic visitor

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here are all of your questions answered.

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New Interstellar Object Comet 3I/ATLAS—What We Know So Far as It Zips through the Solar System

Late in the evening on July 1, a telescope in Chile that is part of the global, NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) picked up on a new moving dot in the sky, an object traveling past the orbit of Jupiter.

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New Interstellar Comet Tracked To Its Origin Region: “It’s Much Older Than The Solar System”

Hopkins and Lintott are two of the six authors of a new paper that uses the new model to trace the origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS, and it appears to be coming from a completely different region of the galaxy than our previous interstellar visitors. IFLScience had a chance to read the yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper ahead of publication.

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3I/ATLAS: Should we panic about the new interstellar comet?

Sometimes "the universe comes to us," writes the European Space Agency. For the third time since 2017, an interstellar object ...

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New interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling through the solar system — and you can watch it live online today

You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...

Astronomers Discover 3I/ATLAS, Largest Interstellar Comet Yet Detected

Astronomers discovered 3I/ATLAS, a 10–20 km-wide interstellar comet racing into the solar system. It will reach perihelion in ...

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Interstellar comet: Everything We Know About 3I/ATLAS

3I/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1, is a comet from interstellar space, meaning it originated in another star system and entered our solar system on a one-time flyby. It was first spotted by the ATLAS ...

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New interstellar comet will keep a safe distance from Earth, NASA says

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...

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Should we panic about interstellar comet 3I/Atlas?

Beyond the fact that this is the third known interstellar object to have entered our solar system, “we don’t know very much,” ...

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