There’s a visitor in town, and its name is 3I/ATLAS. The presumed interstellar comet presents a rare opportunity for astronomers to study an object born a long time ago in a star system far, far away.

For the first time, a fleet of orbiters and a rover circling another world has captured detailed views of an interstellar visitor as it swept through the inner solar system. As comet 3I/ATLAS brushed ...