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Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a rare cosmic traveler: 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar comet hurtling through our ...

Harvard physicist Avi Loeb revealed that the object is expected to approach Earth on December 17, speeding through the solar ...

A MYSTERIOUS cosmic object has been spotted zooming through our solar system – and astronomers say it is only the third of ...

The burst was so bright that it bounced off the Moon and illuminated Earth’s upper atmosphere, surpassing the brightness of a ...

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Astronomers have confirmed the discovery of a rare celestial visitor from beyond our Solar System. The comet was first spotted on 1 July 2025 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ...

Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

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