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A strange interstellar object is racing toward our solar system, and while NASA says it’s a comet, a top Harvard scientist ...
U-M astronomy is helping understand this fast, old and large comet that was born outside our galactic neighborhood This diagram shows the trajectory ...
In an exciting and rare new discovery, astronomers recently confirmed that a third known interstellar object has entered our solar system. The interstellar comet, dubbed "3I/ATLAS", was initially ...
What can a newly discovered interstellar comet teach scientists about solar system formation and evolution? This is what a recent study presented at the Na | Space ...
The comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object and is likely 3 billion years older than our own solar system.
How does a 15-kilometer-wide comet, moving at 152,000 miles per hour, slip into our solar system undetected until a global ...
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...
A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...
A newly discovered object from deep space may be the oldest comet ever observed—possibly more than 7 billion years old, and ...
Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...
Astronomers have been given the rare opportunity to study an extrasolar object after the recent discovery of the interstellar ...
A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen – possibly predating our solar system by more than three billion years, researchers say. The "water ...