The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful space telescope ever built, has picked up highly unusual readings from an object moving towards the inner solar system. These readings have sparked a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist’s impression of the planet Theia colliding with ancient Earth to create the moon. (MPS/Mark A. Garlick) Roughly four and a ...

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For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

The comet, discovered in July 2025, originated far beyond our Solar System and is thought to be around 7 billion years old - even older than the Sun. View on euronews ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS exhibits a bright, extended ion tail while releasing gas and dust as it travels through the inner solar system. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say. A comet named 3I/ATLAS likely weighs more than 33 ...

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Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.