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Interstellar visitor seen blazing through our Solar System

Chron on MSN · 10h

A rare celestial visitor from beyond our solar system is here now

Though 3I/ATLAS will never come close to Earth, its passage offers a rare chance to study material beyond our solar system with ground-based and orbital telescopes, before it accelerates back into deep space . For the latest and best from Chron, sign up for our daily newsletter here.

Newsweek on MSN · 1d

NASA Detects Visitor From Outside Solar System

NASA telescopes in Chile have discovered a comet from interstellar space, making its closest approach in October.

Rare find: interstellar visitor seen blazing through our Solar System

The object gained an official name, C/2025 N1 or 3I/ATLAS, on Wednesday. Moving at a record-setting speed for an interstellar visitor, it is travelling along a curve but not in a closed loop – confirmation of its origins outside the Solar System. It will zoom past our Sun without being captured by its gravity.

Comet, interstellar and solar system

CNN on MSN · 23h

Astronomers spot an interstellar object zipping through our solar system

Astronomers have observed an object that originated from beyond our solar system, thought to be an interstellar comet, speeding through our celestial neighborhood.

CBS News · 23h

NASA finds new interstellar comet passing through solar system

NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on Tuesday and confirmed it was a comet from another star system. The new interstellar comet's official name is 3I/ATLAS.

The New York Times · 1d

It Came From Outside Our Solar System, and It Looks Like a Comet

I/ATLAS, earlier known as A11pI3Z, is only the third interstellar visitor to be discovered passing through our corner of the galaxy.

New Scientist10h

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 ...

New interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is hurtling through the solar system — and you can watch it live online today

You can watch comet 3I/ATLAS live online tonight (July 3), thanks to the Virtual Telescope Project, which will livestream ...

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Astronomers track object that may have originated outside the solar system

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

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Large Unidentified Object Detected Entering Our Solar System

Oumuamua stunned scientists as the interstellar object entered and then exited the solar system, something previously ...

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Astronomers may have discovered 3rd-known interstellar visitor

It appears our solar system is getting more popular with out-of-towners. Astronomers have found a third interstellar object, ...

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Junggar Basin sediments reveal interplay between solar system chaos and Earth's carbon cycle

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

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NASA discovers comet from another star system, only 3rd known

It’s officially the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system and poses no threat to Earth.

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