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Chess.com is excited to partner with Perplexity, the developer behind the cutting-edge, AI-integrated web browser Comet. The collaboration is designed to bring amazing benefits to our community, and will feature the 2025 Comet Open, a high-stakes tournament with a $200,000 prize fund starting on October 11! Perplexity has launched Comet, a revolutionary AI browser that combines traditional browsing with a …

Rumours across social media platforms that a huge comet is on a collision course with Earth have been circulating, with some users describing it as a major threat to humanity. Others are debating how the comet – known as 3I/ATLAS and detected by NASA’s ATLAS telescope on July 1 – might be diverted from the Earth. Some have even gone …

The European Space Agency is making use of spacecraft designed for Mars and Jupiter missions to track interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it continues its journey through our solar system. First spotted in July 2025 by an ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) telescope in Chile, 3I/ATLAS became the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system. Astronomers identified …

AI search startup Perplexity is making its new Comet browser available to everyone in the world for free as it works to position the product against big browsers and search engines. For certain paid subscribers, the startup has also launched a new “background assistant” to handle multiple tasks via Comet.   Perplexity first launched Comet to subscribers of its $200-per-month Max plan three months ago, and …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A comet from another star system will swing by Mars on Friday as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar visitor. The comet known as 3I/Atlas will hurtle within 18 million miles (29 million kilometers) of the red planet, its closest approach during its trek through the inner solar system. Its breakneck speed: …

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A comet from another star system will swing by Mars on Friday as a fleet of spacecraft trains its sights on the interstellar visitor. The comet known as 3I/Atlas will hurtle within 18 million miles (29 million kilometers) of the red planet, its closest approach during its trek through the inner solar system. Its breakneck …

A new comet was discovered last month. Now, as we go through this month, the comet may become easier to view. The new comet was discovered by a sky imaging instrument called SWAN. SWAN stands for Solar Wind Anisotropies camera. The SWAN camera is on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. The comet is named C/2025 R2 SWAN. Let’s …

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is about to vanish from view. Earth and this interstellar interloper will be on opposite sides of the Sun for a little while. The glare of our star will be blocking the object from view in the coming days, until the two celestial bodies appear too close in the sky for the dim comet to be visible. …

When 3I/ATLAS was first spotted a few months ago, it seemed to emit a reddish color. But earlier this month, some astronomers noted it was glowing green. So why is our latest interstellar visitor appearing to switch colors like a traffic light? The answer isn’t certain, but it has something to do with cosmic chemistry. The rest of this article …

The mysterious comet 3I/ATLAS appears to be extremely large, making it orders of magnitude more massive than two other confirmed interstellar objects observed in our solar system in years past, a new study suggests. Based on a new analysis of the most precise tracking data collected on the object since its discovery in July, the interstellar comet appears to be …