Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS may be 12 billion years old, making it older than our solar system; the James Webb Space Telescope reveals |
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has given astronomers an opportunity they rarely expect to receive. Unlike the countless icy bodies that circle the Sun, this object formed around another star before drifting into our solar system, carrying frozen material that has remained largely unchanged for billions of years. After passing closest to the Sun in late 2025,…
