Rather than being an alien craft, 3I/ATLAS likely formed 12 billion years ago at a key moment in the early Universe ...

In July 2025, astronomers spotted something remarkable passing through our Solar System, an object that had not come from ...

Strange interstellar comet speculated to be alien spacecraft is older than Solar System - Scientists say comet represents ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. A deep image of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured by the ...

PARIS, France — An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar ...

When interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered by the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile on July 1, 2025, it quickly attracted ...

The group leading the charge in the search for extraterrestrial life has given the all clear: An interstellar comet looks to be completely natural and free of any alien tech. The SETI Institute said ...

This NASA image shows the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, circled in the center, as seen by the L’LORRI black-and-white imager on NASA’s Lucy spacecraft ...

The SETI Institute is the latest to confirm what scientists have long suspected: the interstellar 3I/ATLAS comet is not an alien spaceship.

Space scientists have released a new image of the enigmatic space rock that traveled through our solar system. Researchers revealed the photograph shows the interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS - speculated to ...

Scientists confirmed that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which passed closest to Earth in December 2025, showed no detectable technosignatures strong enough to suggest it is an alien spacecraft.

Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This image provided by NASA shows the interstellar ...