Comet 31/ATLAS is only the third interstellar object to ever be observed whizzing through the Solar System. While its origins are uncertain, the comet is thought to come from a part of the Milky Way ...

Scientists have long theorized that planets, including those in our solar system, form from interstellar dust and gas as it ...

Earlier this month, astronomers were thrilled after spotting an interstellar object — only the third of its kind ever observed — hurtling toward the center of the solar system on an extremely unusual ...

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...

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

A team of international astronomers, including a University of Michigan doctoral student, were the first to publish the ...

New simulations have narrowed down where the newly discovered interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely came from, revealing it could be more than 3 billion years older than the solar system.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has been used to demonstrate simple interstellar navigation by measuring the parallax of just two stars. An international team was able to determine the location and ...

The comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object and is likely 3 billion years older than our own solar system.

A mystery interstellar object discovered last week is likely to be the oldest comet ever seen—possibly predating our solar ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

A newly discovered object from deep space may be the oldest comet ever observed—possibly more than 7 billion years old, and ...