On July 1, 2025, a tiny shift appeared on a monitoring screen in Chile. This screen connected to NASA's ATLAS survey ...

I/ATLAS, the interstellar object discovered in 2025, reveals the estimated population, composition, and distribution of ...

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS is confirmed as a natural comet from beyond our solar system, posing no threat to Earth despite ...

The Haleakala Observatory, left, houses one telescope for the ATLAS system. That system first spotted the object 3I/ATLAS, which isn't visible in this image. AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson All of our ...

The interstellar visitor known as 3I/ATLAS is forcing astronomers to rethink what they know about objects drifting between ...

How do we know 3I/ATLAS, also called comet C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), is interstellar? Will it strike Earth? Can we visit it? Here are all of your questions answered. When you purchase through links on our ...

High school student Matteo Paz has stunned the scientific community by identifying 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. By creating an artificial intelligence algorithm, Paz found a way to ...

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Rats and mice have a tendency to interact more with a novel object than with a familiar object. This tendency has been used by behavioral pharmacologists and neuroscientists to study learning and ...