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Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...
Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, ...
Astronomers in Hawaiʻi detected the solar system's third interstellar object, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, which poses no threat to ...
Hopkins and Lintott are two of the six authors of a new paper that uses the new model to trace the origin of Comet 3I/ATLAS, and it appears to be coming from a completely different region of the ...
The European Space Agency said Wednesday that scientists have discovered what might be only the third known interstellar ...
Astronomy news always seems to break over coffee, on laptop startup. That was the case on Wednesday morning, when word of a ...
An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed. The object -- likely a comet -- was first detected in data collected between ...
NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that's wandered into our backyard. Luckily, it won't get near enough to be a threat ...