The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is unusually rich in alcohol — a chemical clue that could reveal how planets and icy bodies form around other stars.

Analysis of the tail of 3I/Atlas reveals that it contains an anomalous proportion of methanol, a class of alcohol used in fuels.

Comet 3I/ATLAS continues to make astonishing headlines, thanks to new findings from astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). This new research reveals that 3I/ATLAS ...

When the object known as 3I Atlas entered our solar system, astronomers quickly tried to explain what it was. Early observations suggested it might be another interstellar comet, similar to previous ...

Scientists are scrambling to explain why interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is carrying life's chemical building blocks at concentrations never before seen, and it makes its final pass through our cosmic n ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected unusually large amounts of methanol, a simple alcohol, in interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS—levels that exceed those ...

War Machine imagines a machine arriving from space. Real astronomy has detected interstellar visitors like ʻOumuamua, 2I/Borisov and 3I/ATLAS.

This is the moment a mysterious object that has come from interstellar space was spotted travelling through our solar system. Images shared by the Canary Islands Institute of Physics on Thursday (3 ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaving our solar system. See new photos from a European Space Agency orbiter on its way to Jupiter.

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Astronomers first spotted comet 3I/Atlas in data collected by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in ...