{"id":664066,"date":"2026-06-29T09:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664066\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T09:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:15:08","slug":"in-july-2025-the-atlas-sky-survey-in-chile-spotted-a-faint-comet-racing-through-the-solar-system-at-roughly-130000-miles-per-hour-and-follow-up-orbit-calculations-quickly-showed-it-was-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/664066\/","title":{"rendered":"In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour \u2014 and follow-up orbit calculations quickly showed it was not bound to the Sun at all, but had arrived from interstellar space. – Space Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system at roughly 130,000 miles per hour \u2014 and follow-up orbit calculations quickly showed it was not bound to the Sun at all, but had arrived from interstellar space.<\/a>  Space Daily12 billion years old, this interstellar comet is older than our solar system<\/a>  Phys.orgDeuterium in Comets Tells Interesting Tales<\/a>  Universe TodayWebb finds clues to ancient origin of Comet 3I\/ATLAS<\/a>  European Space AgencyInterstellar comet may be oldest object seen in our solar system, scientists say<\/a>  The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In July 2025, the ATLAS sky survey in Chile spotted a faint comet racing through the solar system…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-664066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}