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Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS just got even weirder, and may contain 10-billion-year-old material

(NASA/ESA/D. Jewitt/UCLA/J. DePasquale/STScI) Exiled interstellar visitors like comet 3I/ATLAS are time capsules from the ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, on its way out, surprises with something strange about our Solar System

Researchers have made groundbreaking observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

Webb links interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS to worlds beyond Neptune through similar ice signatures

A Southwest Research Institute–led study used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to examine ice grains streaming from ...
BBC Sky at Night Magazine

The interstellar comet just brought us closer to our galactic neighbours – 3I/ATLAS chemistry revealed something very special about our Solar System

The James Webb Space Telescope finds comet 3I/ATLAS's chemistry resembles that of some icy worlds beyond Neptune in our Solar ...
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3I/ATLAS Update: Webb Telescope Observes Comet Over Eight Months Finding 'How Much Dust Is Mixed' in Its Ice

James Webb observations suggest interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains dust-rich water-ice grains, offering clues about how icy ...
Science Daily

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is bursting with methanol

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS contains exceptionally high levels of methanol, suggesting it formed under conditions very different from those that shaped most comets in our solar system. ALMA also ...
IBTimes UK

Where is the 3I/ATLAS Now? Harvard Physicist Claims 12-Billion-Year-Old Relic Is an Alien Probe

An interstellar comet known as 3I/ATLAS, which swept past the Sun in 2024, could be a 12‑billion‑year‑old relic from deep space and has even been described by a Harvard physicist as a possible alien ...