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If This Comet Is What We Think It Is, It’s Unlike Any Object Humanity Has Ever Seen
Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins ...
Scientists Spot a Cosmic Visitor That May Be 7 Billion Years Old
A newly discovered interstellar comet could be older than the Solar System, and scientists think it carries secrets from the ...
An Interstellar Comet Is Here, and Its Age Is Mind-Bending
After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...
Astronomers capture 1st close-up photograph of new interstellar visitor
Using the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have captured the first detailed image of our third known cosmic interloper.
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A newly discovered interstellar object might predate the solar system
I/ATLAS might be over 7 billion years old, a new study reports, which would make it the oldest comet known. But experts caution we need more data.
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The Interstellar Visitor Hurtling Toward the Center of Our Star System Is Unimaginably Ancient, Scientists Say
Astronomers recently confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS came from interstellar space, blowing through the ...
This interstellar comet may be a frozen relic from before the Sun
A newly discovered comet, 3I/ATLAS, may be the most ancient visitor ever detected, potentially older than our solar system itself. Unlike previous interstellar objects, this ice-rich comet seems to ...
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A third visitor from another star is hurtling through the solar system
For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.