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A 7-Billion-Year-Old Ice Ball Just Entered Our Solar System
A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...
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A Rare Interstellar Object Is Blazing Through Our Solar System, Marking Only the Third Cosmic Visitor on Record
Astronomers have confirmed the third interstellar object on record is dashing through our solar system. Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it ...
Rare object from another star spotted zipping around our solar system
A new interstellar object, A11pl3Z, has been discovered in our solar system, marking the third such object to be observed. It ...
A Solar System Is Born: Planet-Forming “Pebbles” Detected Around Two Distant Young Stars
Centimeter-sized pebbles have been detected in protoplanetary discs using e‑MERLIN, filling in a critical phase of planet ...
Scientists think they've worked out what unknown interstellar object in our solar system is
Scientists have been studying an interstellar object that's currently moving through our solar system which was first spotted on 1 July. It has been called 3I/ATLAS because of what spotted it, and ...
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A rare interstellar comet is headed our way in October. Here's how you could view it
Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...
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Meteorite causes rethink of how and when our solar system formed
Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...
Confirmed: A Rare Interstellar Object Is Passing Through Our Solar System
Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.
Mystery space rock blazing through solar system ‘may be oldest comet ever seen’ – and there’s a chance you can spot it
AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...