{"id":220294,"date":"2025-08-17T11:16:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/nasa-probe-could-intercept-interstellar-comet-scientists-say"},"modified":"2025-08-17T11:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:16:41","slug":"nasa-probe-could-intercept-interstellar-comet-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/nasa-probe-could-intercept-interstellar-comet-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"NASA Probe Could Intercept Interstellar Comet, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-probe-could-intercept-interstellar-comet-scientists-say2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ifa.hawaii.edu\/research\/Pan-STARRS.shtml\">Pan-STARRS Observatory<\/a> in Hawaii made history in 2017 when they detected <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/articles\/first-interstellar-comet-discovered\">\u2019Oumuamua<\/a>, the first interstellar object (ISO) ever observed.<\/p>\n<p>Two years later, the interstellar comet 2I\/Borisov became the second ISO ever observed. And on July 1st, 2025, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/asteroid\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Asteroid<\/a> Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Rio Hurtado detected a third interstellar object in our Solar System, the comet now known as 3I\/ATLAS (or C\/2025 N1 ATLAS).<\/p>\n<p>Like its predecessors, the arrival of this object has fueled immense scientific interest and led to proposals for missions that could rendezvous with future ISOs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers at the Pan-STARRS Observatory in Hawaii made history in 2017 when they detected \u2019Oumuamua, the first interstellar object (ISO) ever observed. Two years later, the interstellar comet 2I\/Borisov became the second ISO ever observed. And on July 1st, 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Rio Hurtado detected a third interstellar object [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}