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Mystery space rock blazing through solar system ‘may be oldest comet ever seen’ – and there’s a chance you can spot it
AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...
‘Space ice' found in comets isn't much like water on Earth after all
Space is cold, and research has shown time and time again that space ice is prevalent throughout the universe. However, ...
An Interstellar Comet Is Here, and Its Age Is Mind-Bending
After defending his PhD thesis on modeling interstellar objects on Monday, June 30, Matthew Hopkins intended to take some ...
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7 billion-year-old mysterious comet is the oldest known guest in our solar system
Researchers at Oxford have discovered that comet 3I/ATLAS may be over 7 billion years old, making it the oldest one we've ...
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A rare interstellar comet is headed our way in October. Here's how you could view it
Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...
Scientists find ice comet older than the Sun that may be visible from Earth this year
The newly discovered space rock may be older than our entire solar system, and you may get the chance to see it ...
An alien comet is now passing through our solar system. Here's what we know
For context, that's 90 million kilometres farther than the distance between the Earth and the Sun! This diagram shows the ...