According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

An interstellar comet named 3I/ATLAS is set to pass through its nearest point to the Earth on its journey on Friday, 19 December. On that day, it will be at an approximate distance of 170 million ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar ...

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Dec. 19 (UPI) --Comet 3I/ATLAS passed its nearest point to Earth early Friday and approaching within 168 million miles. After its brief visit Friday the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS will head back ...

3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object identified by NASA as a comet, will swing by Earth in its closest approach this week. Scientists have been tracking the comet’s grand tour of our solar system since it ...

A stray comet will make its closest approach to Earth today in one last hurrah before racing back toward interstellar space. Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas will pass within ...

An object older than the solar system is crossing familiar planetary territory, and spacecraft built for entirely different missions are turning into a makeshift deep-space observatory to study it.