Data collected by NASA's missions about interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will continue to reveal insights about the comet and interstellar objects at large.
NASA's Hubble Telescope captured the rare phenomenon of a comet breaking apart, catching scientists off guard until they saw ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare cosmic moment: a comet breaking apart in real time.
In an incredibly lucky cosmic accident, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a comet breaking apart in real time—something astronomers have long tried and failed to observe. The comet, C/2025 K1 ...
C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) was on its way out of the solar system when it did the fateful thing that many comets do. Reading time 3 ...
The researchers had initially selected a different target for Hubble.
The interstellar comet holds more alcohol than almost all known comets in the solar system.
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system for good. Here's what to know about its journey and NASA's ...
A chance change in plans helped the Hubble Space Telescope capture an uncommon event in November 2025: a comet breaking apart.
New data indicates Comet 3I/ATLAS is second only to C/2016 R2 in terms of methanol levels ever recorded in a comet within our solar system.
In a stroke of luck, astronomers saw the comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) break into four or five fragments in November after it passed close to the sun.