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Alien Probe or Cosmic Relic? Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Baffles Scientists (updated 27.10.2025)

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS on Nov. 9, 2025: Tail Mystery, New Jet Images, and Where to Look This Week

Updated: November 9, 2025 What’s new today Today’s snapshot: why the comet’s look is confusing Some Nov. 5–9 images show a compact coma with little obvious dust tail, which has fueled social-media claims that 3I/ATLAS is behaving “unlike a comet.” But experts caution that viewing geometry matters: a tail can be foreshortened or lost in glare, and gas emissions can dominate the appearance around perihelion. Two days ago Space.com quoted Lowell Observatory’s Qicheng Zhang: there’s no solid evidence the coma “changed color”; instead, the gas coma is simply contributing more to the comet’s brightness. Meanwhile, a fresh deep stack highlighted
9 November 2025
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: A Visitor from Beyond the Solar System

Comet 3I/ATLAS Today (Nov 7, 2025): New Mars‑orbiter images, how to see it before dawn, and what scientists are learning about this interstellar visitor

Updated: November 7, 2025 — Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (also cataloged as C/2025 N1 [ATLAS]) has re-emerged from behind the Sun and is back on astronomers’ morning watch lists. Fresh coverage today highlights new imagery from Mars orbit, public tools to follow its path, and why agencies are mobilizing to study only the third confirmed interstellar object ever seen. Space+2WIRED+2 What’s new today (Nov 7) Quick facts at a glance Back in our skies: where and how to see 3I/ATLAS The comet is again observable from Earth in the pre‑dawn sky, very low toward the eastern horizon. It remains a small‑telescope
7 November 2025
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Space Junk Gold Rush: Inside the 2025–2032 Race to Clean Up Earth’s Orbit and Cash In on Sustainability

Space Junk Scare: China Delays Shenzhou‑20 Return After Suspected Debris Strike — What It Means for Astronaut Safety, Markets and the Space Race

Key facts (updated Nov. 5, 2025): What happened and what we know China’s Manned Space Agency (CMSA) said Shenzhou‑20’s return, originally scheduled for Wednesday, Nov. 5, is postponed after the spacecraft was “possibly hit by tiny bits of space debris.” An impact analysis and risk assessment are in progress; no revised landing time has been announced. Reuters The outgoing Shenzhou‑20 crew has already completed a handover with the newly arrived Shenzhou‑21 team aboard the Tiangong space station. The in‑orbit changeover took place earlier this week, and both ships remain docked as engineers evaluate Shenzhou‑20’s condition. spacepolicyonline.com Why this is significant
5 November 2025
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Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – a 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule – Flies Past Mars

Interstellar Visitor 3I/ATLAS Just Turned Blue and “Accelerated”—Here’s What Really Happened This Week

Key facts (updated Nov 5, 2025): The story so far: what changed in the last few days While 3I/ATLAS was hidden in the Sun’s glare in late October, it slipped into the fields of view of several solar‑monitoring cameras: STEREO‑A (SECCHI), SOHO/LASCO C3 and NOAA’s GOES‑19 CCOR‑1 coronagraph. A new analysis by Qicheng Zhang (Lowell Observatory) and Karl Battams (U.S. Naval Research Lab) reports an extra‑steep brightening as perihelion approached (scaling approximately as r^‑7.5), and color photometry showing the comet was bluer than the Sun, signaling that glowing gas (not just dust) dominated the visible output near perihelion. This is
5 November 2025
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July 10 2025’s ‘Buck Moon’ Will Be the Farthest‑From‑the‑Sun, Low‑Riding Full Moon of the Decade—Here’s the Exact Time, Best Viewing Tricks & Pro Photo Hacks You Need

Today’s Moon Is a Record Supermoon: See 2025’s Biggest, Brightest Full Moon (Nov 5) — What to Know, When to Look, and Why It Matters

Today’s Moon, explained At 13:19 UTC (08:19 ET) the Moon reached the exact Full Moon moment — the point when Sun, Earth and Moon line up with Earth in the middle. Timeanddate summarizes it neatly: “Full Moon is the only phase where the Moon is up all night.” Time and Date Later today, around 22:30 UTC, the Moon hits perigee (its closest point this month), tightening the geometry into what popular usage calls a supermoon. NASA’s definition: “A ‘supermoon’ occurs when a full Moon coincides with the Moon’s closest approach to Earth in its elliptical orbit, [perigee].” The result is
5 November 2025
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Stuns Scientists – Brightening, Blue Glow & Mystery Acceleration

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Stuns Scientists – Brightening, Blue Glow & Mystery Acceleration

A Mysterious Visitor from Beyond the Solar System When astronomers spotted a faint new object moving rapidly through the outer solar system in July 2025, they quickly realized it was not an ordinary comet. Its extra-high velocity and open-ended (hyperbolic) trajectory indicated it was an interstellar interloper – an object arriving from far outside the Sun’s domain scientificamerican.com. Officially designated 3I/ATLAS (“I” for interstellar, “3” as the third of its kind, and ATLAS for the survey telescope that found it theguardian.com), this comet has since commanded the full attention of the astronomical community. “We’ve never had an object like this
3 November 2025
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Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS: A Visitor from Beyond the Solar System

Ancient Alien Messenger or Cosmic Time Capsule? Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Stuns Scientists with Secrets

Meet the Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – A Visitor From Beyond When astronomers spotted a faint new comet on July 1, 2025, they quickly realized it was no ordinary comet. Its official designation, 3I/ATLAS, tells the tale: “3I” means it’s the third interstellar object ever recorded, and “ATLAS” credits the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System survey telescope (in Río Hurtado, Chile) that discovered it scientificamerican.com. In the days following discovery, observatories around the world rushed to calculate its orbit – and the results were stunning. Unlike normal comets bound in elliptical orbits around the Sun, 3I/ATLAS was on a one-way hyperbolic
2 November 2025
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Europe’s $7.5 Billion Space Alliance: Airbus, Thales & Leonardo Join Forces to Challenge Musk’s Starlink

Europe’s $7.5 Billion Space Alliance: Airbus, Thales & Leonardo Join Forces to Challenge Musk’s Starlink

Europe Builds a Space Powerhouse to Take on Starlink Europe is finally uniting its space champions. In a landmark agreement announced on October 23, aerospace giants Airbus, Thales, and Leonardo unveiled plans to combine their satellite divisions into a single joint venture worth €6.5 billion in annual sales reuters.com. The move wraps up months of negotiations (code-named “Project Bromo”) and seeks to create a European “one-stop-shop” for satellites and space systems that can compete with Elon Musk’s Starlink megaconstellation and other rivals reuters.com. It’s a strategic play to regain ground in the global space race, where Europe’s once-leading satellite firms have fallen
23 October 2025
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NASA Confirms Earth’s “Secret Second Moon” – Tiny Asteroid 2025 PN7 Will Orbit with Us Until 2083

NASA Confirms Earth’s “Secret Second Moon” – Tiny Asteroid 2025 PN7 Will Orbit with Us Until 2083

NASA Announces New “Quasi-Moon” Discovery On Oct 22, 2025, space agencies worldwide celebrated the announcement that Earth has a new celestial companion. A team from the University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS survey discovered a tiny asteroid – designated 2025 PN7 – on Aug. 2, 2025, and subsequent orbit analysis showed it has been silently trailing Earth for roughly 60 years chron.com. NASA confirmed in a press report that this 62-foot-wide rock is Earth’s newest “quasi-moon,” meaning it is not a bound satellite but a co-orbital asteroid ts2.tech hindustantimes.com. As one global space news outlet noted, astronomers “confirmed a tiny ‘quasi-moon’ –
22 October 2025
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SHOCKING: Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Will Buzz Earth TODAY (Closer Than the Moon) – What Experts and Investors Are Saying

SHOCKING: Asteroid Discovered Just Days Ago Will Buzz Earth TODAY (Closer Than the Moon) – What Experts and Investors Are Saying

Close Call with Asteroid 2025 TP5 Astronomers have identified Asteroid 2025 TP5 as a very close but safe Earth flyby. According to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab data, 2025 TP5 will swoop by at 4:09 p.m. EDT (2009 UTC) on Oct. 15, 2025, at ~60,328 miles (97,089 km) from Earth’s center space.com. By comparison, the Moon orbits ~238,855 miles away. After the Earth flyby, JPL reports that 2025 TP5 will come as close as 74,616 miles to the Moon on Oct. 16 space.com. At an estimated 54 ft (16 m) diameter space.com, it is a medium-sized near-Earth asteroid. Notably, 2025 TP5 was undetected until Oct. 13,
16 October 2025
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Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS – a 10-Billion-Year-Old Time Capsule – Flies Past Mars

Alien Comet 3I/ATLAS Is Spewing Water Like a Fire Hose — And Scientists Are Stunned

These astounding discoveries come from coordinated observations worldwide. Below we delve into the details: what we’ve learned about 3I/ATLAS, how it compares to other interstellar visitors, and why scientists are so excited. What Is 3I/ATLAS? A Rare Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (sometimes simply called “ATLAS”) is an interstellar comet – a chunk of ice and rock that formed around a distant star and is now speeding through our Solar System on a one-way trip. It was first spotted on July 1, 2025, by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile ts2.tech. Follow-up analyses quickly confirmed its hyperbolic orbit
12 October 2025
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