Our cosmic home, the solar system, contains incredible planets and magnificent celestial objects, all held together with the Sun's gravitational embrace. But, from outside the celestial boundaries of ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and back out of the Sun’s neighborhood, it offers a bright glimpse of material ...

Based on the speed and trajectory of a newly detected object, astronomers believe it came to our solar system from beyond. This illustration shows the first known interstellar object to fly though our ...

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Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar object detected in our Solar System, hurtles past Mars at 155,000 mph, with ESA’s ExoMars orbiter delivering breakthrough tracking of its rare hyperbolic escape.