Scientists discover 3I/ATLAS, a possible 7-billion-year-old comet from deep space. It may rewrite what we know about the ...

The newly discovered space rock may be older than our entire solar system, and you may get the chance to see it ...

The third interstellar object detected has been named 3I/ATLAS and was discovered on July 1 from Chile. Astronomers from the ...

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Many famous comets return within a generation. Halley's Comet, for instance, will visit again in 2061. But when comets head in from the Oort Cloud, they won't be back anytime soon.

Interstellar comets offer the tantalizing opportunity for us to touch something truly otherworldly,” says the European Space ...

Only four other comets have shown similar activity at such a distance, making C/2025 D1 (Gröller) unique in its exceptionally distant perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) of 14.1 AU.

Comets 3I/ATLAS: Everything you need ... comets and asteroids thought to be responsible for two famous impacts here on Earth has been found to be not quite as menacing as astronomers had feared.

Debris from one of the most famous comets is about to speed across the night sky. The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is expected to reach its peak on Sunday, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac ...

Up to 60% of near-Earth objects could be dark comets, mysterious asteroids that orbit the sun in our solar system that likely contain or previously contained ice and could have been one route for ...