The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Orbiters Catch a Glimpse of 3I/ATLAS

The ESA's Mars Express and ExoMars Orbiters Catch a Glimpse of 3I/ATLAS

Between 1 and 7 October, ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Mars Express spacecraft turned their eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, as it passed close to Mars.

Is Comet 3I/Atlas Some Form Of Alien Technology?

NEW YORK – Comet 3I/ATLAS’s unusual trajectory and unprecedented size have ignited debates and theories as to what the object could be. A controversial theory put forward by Avi Loeb, a Harvard astrophysicist and his team is that the interstellar object might be some form of “alien technology.” The colossal interstellar object was first spotted in Chile by NASA’s ATLAS survey telescope on 1 July, 2025. When astronomers initially saw it, they wer…

ESA’s ExoMars Orbiter Captures Closest Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter captured the closest-ever images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed Mars at 130,000 mph. The faint object revealed a gas coma but no tail. Believed to be billions of years older than our Solar System, the comet will exit after nearing Jupiter in 2026.

The Ultimate Guide to 3I/ATLAS: A Messenger from Another Star

Our solar system is an island, a gravitationally bound collection of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets orbiting a single star. For all of human history, every celestial object we have ever studied was born from the same primordial cloud of gas and dust as our own Earth. They are family, sharing a common origin and a common chemical heritage. But the universe is not empty between the stars. It is a vast ocean, and occasionally, objects from o…