Astronomers tracked a blazing visitor from deep space slicing through the solar system at over 150,000 miles per hour, its ...
A rogue comet from another star system is rewriting the textbook on how cosmic visitors behave deep inside our solar system.
On December 15-16, 2011, a Sun-grazing comet, designated Lovejoy (C/2011 W3), passed deep within the hot solar atmosphere – the corona – effectively probing a region that could never be visited by ...