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NASA recently took a closer look at the Comet 3I/ATLAS, the third confirmed interstellar object in our solar system. The ...

Our new results provide the strongest evidence yet that at least some Halley-type comets carried water with the same isotopic ...

Dr. Avi Loeb – a Harvard scientist who founded the Galileo Project focused on finding extraterrestrial life – said a recently ...

Dr. Loeb first raised concerns earlier this month, noting an anomaly in the object's appearance. Unlike typical comets, which ...

Mundane wayward space rock, or extraterrestrial visitor? Astronomers believe that our solar system's latest and only third ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped images of a recently discovered interstellar visitor hurtling through our solar ...

Comets, often called "cosmic snowballs" by NASA, are composed of dust, rock and ice. Comets orbit the sun in a highly elliptical orbit, spending years at the depths of the solar system and then ...

Comets, often called "cosmic snowballs" by NASA, are composed of dust, rock and ice. Comets orbit the sun in a highly elliptical orbit, spending years at the depths of the solar system and then ...

P: Periodic (or short-period) comet with solar orbit of less than 200 years. A: Asteroid or minor planet that was previously identified as a comet. X: Comet whose orbit can't be computed.

The comet 12P/Pons-Brooks takes 71 years to fly around the sun, according to NPR. On April 21, the comet will reach the point in its orbit when it will be closest to the sun.

Comets have survived more than four billion years, lurking far beyond the orbit of Neptune. But now one of these dusty, icy objects, called 12P/Pons-Brooks, hides near the Sun.