The new Vera C. Rubin Observatory captured a video of Comet 3I/ATLAS zipping through space during its testing phase. Credit: RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF / DOE / X screenshot A new telescope built ...

This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hubble photographed the comet on July 21, 2025, when the comet was 277 million miles from Earth. Hubble shows that the comet ...

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I/ATLAS arrived fast, bright, and strange. When astronomers spotted it on July 1, 2025, they knew almost immediately this was no ordinary comet.

A new telescope built to to track fast-moving space objects caught a comet from beyond the solar system moving across the sky — before anyone even knew it was there. The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin ...