Update: NASA has confirmed the object is an interstellar comet and says it has been officially named 3I/ATLAS.

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb revealed that the object is expected to approach Earth on December 17, speeding through the solar ...

It appears our solar system is getting more popular with out-of-towners. Astronomers have found a third interstellar object, ...

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has detected what could be only the third known object to enter our solar system from ...

Classified as a comet, 3I/Atlas was first spotted on Tuesday by the NASA-funded ATLAS survey in Hawaii. Subsequent analysis ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) said it is monitoring an unidentified object alongside Russia identified only as A11pl3Z as it hurtles at astonishing speed from outside the Milky Way ...

It is possible to make a material emit more radiation than it absorbs, violating the laws of physics in a way that could make ...

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

Scientists believe that many more such objects regularly pass by the Earth, with a number of them flying relatively near to ...

An object from outside the solar system has been spotted hurtling towards the sun, the European Space Agency (ESA) has said.

The object was first noticed by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), with further observations ...