A newly discovered comet is rapidly brightening and could become visible from Earth — if it survives an extreme close encounter with the sun on April 4.
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NASA shares close views of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

At roughly 250,000 kilometers per hour, comet 3I/ATLAS did not merely enter the inner solar system; it tore through it at a ...
Only three confirmed interstellar objects have ever been identified passing through the solar system, which helps explain why ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from a European Space Agency orbiter on its way to Jupiter.
Comet MAPS (C/2026 A1), a "Kreutz sungrazer,” will skim the sun in early April and may put on a brief, dramatic show low in ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has steadily been making its exit ever since it had a rendezvous at the end of October with the ...
It ain't from around these parts of space.
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from the a European Space Agency orbiter on its ...
NASA’s SPHEREx telescope detected water vapor and carbon-rich molecules from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after it ...
A 1,300-pound NASA satellite is expected to crash through Earth's atmosphere March 10, 2026, with some of the spacecraft possibly surviving re-entry.