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Astronomers think newly discovered comet may be way older than the sun
The icy traveler, called 3I/ATLAS or Comet ATLAS, was discovered on July 1 by the NASA -funded ATLAS survey telescope in Río Hurtado, Chile. This enormous space snowball came from the direction of the ...
‘Will keep safe distance from Earth’: Nasa spots interstellar comet in solar system; shares picture
NASA has discovered the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas, located 4.5 au from the Sun, offering a rare glimpse into celestial ...
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See interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS zoom through solar system in new telescope imagery (video)
Captured just days after its discovery, the images offer the clearest view yet of this rare visitor from beyond our solar system.
NASA warns of giant interstellar comet of unknown origin crossing the solar system
A comet the size of Manhattan has been detected hurtling through the solar system, marking only the third time an ...
Deflecting a Killer Asteroid Is More Complicated Than NASA Thought
In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...
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NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...