On July 1, 2025, astronomers caught sight of a mysterious object racing through the solar system. This object, now named 3I/ATLAS, became only the third known visitor from outside our planetary ...

It’s probe-ably nothing. The newly discovered Manhattan-sized interstellar object zooming through our solar system has been identified as a comet — but two Harvard scientists argue there is reason to ...

Swinburne University of Technology provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. On July 1, astronomers spotted an unusual high-speed object zooming towards the Sun. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the ...

Scientists are hard at work considering what kinds of engineering alien probes would need to reach us through interstellar space. However, crossing deep space to reach Earth with a probe would require ...