No aliens. No threat to life here on Earth.” The plain assurance of NASA’s Sean Duffy lacks the poetry of glowing comet tails but cuts through the noise rather succinctly. To scientists, the ...

Before 3I/ATLAS, the only other confirmed interstellar tourists we've seen were the now-famous, cigar-shaped 'Oumuamua' in 2017 and the slightly more conventional Comet '2I/Borisov' in 2019. This new ...

Could a frozen interstellar traveler be carrying the chemical seeds of life? The third known confirmed object to enter our solar system from beyond, interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is delivering a wealth ...