National Academy of Sciences

Building Blocks of the Solar System: A Conversation with Meenakshi Wadhwa on Asteroid Day

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Might Be the Oldest Object Ever Seen in Our Solar System, a Study Suggests

Based on the composition of gases spewed by the icy space rock, researchers estimate that our guest might be up to 12 billion ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Rare Comet Made History as the Third Known Interstellar Object to Fly Through Our Solar System. Studies Are Now Revealing the Mysterious Conditions in Which I…

In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a ...
The Manila Times on MSN

Interstellar comet likely far older than Solar System — astronomers

PARIS, France — An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our Solar ...