Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS nears Earth
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For the past five months, astronomers around the world have meticulously tracked a strange visitor from another solar system as it zips through our own. Now, it’s about to make its closest approach to Earth. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS will fly by our ...
A stray comet from another star swings past Earth this week in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space.Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within 167 million miles (269 million kilometers) of our planet on Friday,