A camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in early October. At the time, the comet was about 19 million miles ...

This summer, scientists spotted an incredibly rare visitor to Earth’s solar system—a comet, now known as 3I/ATLAS, that entered our solar system from the galaxy beyond and is zipping past the sun at a ...

“This was a very challenging observation for the instrument. The comet is around 10 000 to 100 000 times fainter than our ...

A camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS on October 2. - NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona The ...

The HiRISE orbiter successfully photographed interstellar comet 3I/Atlas during its high-speed journey past the red planet, offering scientists their closest view yet A camera designed to study the ...

Since comet 3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object, was discovered on 1 July 2025, astronomers worldwide have worked to predict its trajectory. ESA has now improved the comet's predicted ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - At the start of October, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), equipped with the University of Arizona-led HiRISE camera, captured images of comet 3I/ATLAS, marking only the ...

A University of Arizona-led team using a camera orbiting Mars has captured the closest images yet of an interstellar comet so rare that it has sparked wild speculation about its alien origins. The ...

(CNN) — The latest images of an interstellar comet shared by NASA have captured how an array of spacecraft witnessed a flyby that was truly out of this world, revealing clues to the object’s ...