We now know that all these bright comets from the last two millennia — the Kreutz sungrazing family — share a common origin.

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Telescopes around the world are now tracking a new visitor to our celestial neighborhood. Streaking through at a speed and trajectory that not even the Sun's immense gravity can capture, we will only ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is cutting across the solar system on a trajectory that does not quite match expectations, threading past the giant planets in a way that has planetary scientists recalculating what ...

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