Our home planet seems to share its heritage with a famous comet. By analysing the chemical make-up of the comet 12P/Pons-Brooks — which was discovered in 1812 and passes close to the Earth every 71 ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare visitor from outside the Solar System, might have been spewing gases for months before it was spotted by astronomers 1. Telescopes around the world swivelled to ...

An interstellar object currently passing through our solar system might be one of the oldest comets we have ever seen, originating from a star billions of years older than our own. Comet 3I/ATLAS was ...