Asteroid 2016 BA14 may look like an asteroid, but it's actually a comet. Asteroid 2016 BA14 may look like an asteroid, ... tiny specks of light that move among the background stars.

Astrophysicist Josep Trigo-Rodriguez of the Institute of Space Sciences near Barcelona, Spain, believes it is an interstellar ...

It really rocked their world. Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have better observed an asteroid that strangely possesses hybrid characteristics of a comet as well.. The strange rock ...

Phaethon, the source of the Geminid meteor shower, has intrigued scientists for years because it’s an asteroid that behaves like a comet. New research may reveal the reason why this oddball gets ...

Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein, as it’s now known, won’t make its closest approach to the Sun for another 10 years, but the object is already showing signs of life, as this wonderful new image ...

For untold eons, a comet has been drifting through space, paying a visit to Earth every 80,000 years or so. This time, astronomers were on the lookout and gave it a name: C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan ...

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The cosmic interloper was first thought to be an interstellar asteroid, a chunk of rock shed by another star system. Then astronomers decided it must be a comet , likewise flung loose from some ...

Researchers are still hoping for more observations of A/2017 U1 to nail down exactly where this comet or asteroid is coming from. But at least for right now, it's looking a lot like this comet or ...