NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.

“They happen to be very close to each other in the sky right now,” he says. “The closest approach was actually this (Tuesday) ...

3I/ATLAS was discovered by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) on 1 July, and is just the third ...

On the subject of Comet 3I's unnaturalness, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has admitted to having concerns about the discovery in ...

Scientists have proposed a six-word message to send to the interstellar object shooting through space before it reaches a ...

The 3I/ATLAS, which was first spotted on July 1, has the fastest velocity of any solar system visitor to date, NASA says. The ...

A respected Harvard professor is once again challenging the scientific community with a controversial claim, urging global ...

The space telescope obtained some details about the third recent interstellar visitor.

Physicist Avi Loeb has argued the possibility that 3I/ATLAS spotted by a NASA telescope could contain alien intelligence ...

On August 11, 2025, Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb sparked global intrigue by proposing that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, discovered on July 1, 2025, by NASA’s ATLAS telescope in Chile, may be ...