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3I/ATLAS: Distant Comet Visits Our Solar System
A NASA-funded telescope in Chile identified a comet from interstellar space on July 1, marking a significant astronomical ...
An "interstellar object" is speeding toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, astronomers have confirmed.
NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses ...
Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, the comet poses no danger to Earth and will remain roughly 150 million miles away as it speeds by.
The newly discovered interstellar visitor is just the third of its kind and fascinates astronomers who hope to learn from it ...
An object from another star has been seen entering the solar system at high speed, and is expected to whip around the sun in ...
In a rare astronomical event, astronomers have confirmed the passage of an interstellar object through our solar system.
I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has detected what could be only the third known object to enter our solar system from ...
The decade-long wait for U.K. astronomers ends as the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveals dazzling first images.