In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour — and follow-up orbit calculations quickly showed it was not bound to the Sun at all, but had arrived from interstellar spa
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"In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour — and follow-up orbit calculations quickly showed it was not bound to the Sun at all, but had arrived from interstellar spa" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 6 articles from 6 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include Avi Loeb – Medium, Yahoo, Universe Today and Phys.org. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (6)
- Dusting Off 3I/ATLAS: Interstellar Travelers Must Clean their Windshields! Avi Loeb – Medium · 92d ago
- California scientists scanned 3I/ATLAS for alien tech, and found only Earth-based noise Yahoo · 92d ago
- Deuterium in Comets Tells Interesting Tales Universe Today · 92d ago
- 12 billion years old, this interstellar comet is older than our solar system Phys.org · 92d ago
- A Rare Comet Made History as the Third Known Interstellar Object to Fly Through Our Solar System. Studies Are Now Revealing the Mysterious Conditions in Which It Formed Smithsonian Magazine · 92d ago
- In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour — and follow-up orbit calculations quickly showed it was not bound to the Sun at all, but had arrived from interstellar spa Space Daily · 92d ago
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