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An object dubbed 3I/ATLAS is only the third interloper from outside the Solar System seen in all of human history.

All eyes are on Comet 3I/ATLAS as astronomers worldwide chase the exotic ice ball through our solar system ...

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system.

Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.

According Harvard physicist Avi Loeb, the object - which originated in interstellar space - was spotted by astronomers ...

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