The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...

On March 8, ALMA spotted a pair of jets blasting out of the comet's nucleus – its solid icy core. Spectrometry revealed that ...

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling ...

For example, Comet Hale-Bopp is named for Alan Hale and Thomas Bopp, who co-discovered the comet in 1995. Comet PanSTARRS comes from the PanSTARRS survey conducted from Mt. Haleakala in Hawai'i.

“Comet of the century” will be visible for first time in 80,000 years. Here’s how to glimpse it Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas will make a pass close to the Sun throughout late September and October.