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Imagine noticing a new animal in your backyard, a cat with a massive size, a cat with a tail on its forehead instead of its rear end. Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist, used the analogy of this odd ...

A comet tail pointing toward the Sun sounds like a mistake-but that is exactly the geometry Comet 3I/ATLAS put on display as it swept through the inner solar system and began its exit path. The ...

This week, astronomers here on Earth, as well as a collection of NASA spacecraft, are treating us to amazing new views of alien comet 3I/ATLAS. The latest interstellar visitor to swing through our ...

NEW YORK CITY — The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar comet as the object nears its closest approach to Earth later this month.

Comet L4 PANSTARRS on May 27 when Earth cut directly through the comet's orbital plane giving us an edge-on view through the broad but narrow cloud of dust shed by the comet over the past few months.