New observations of comet 3I/ATLAS have shown that our interstellar visitor may have lost a significant amount of mass following its close encounter with the Sun. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

For those who haven't heard of 3I/ATLAS, on July 1 , astronomers at the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) spotted an object zipping its way through our Solar System at high speeds. Follow-up observations showed that it was on an escape trajectory. With an eccentricity greater than 1, it was determined to be an interstellar visitor , the third we have spotted so far after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov .

Contrary to conspiracy theories going around the Internet, a lot of telescopes are keeping a close ey

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