Astronomers have called for help to identify a mystery object that may have hit Saturn on Saturday in what could be the first recorded instance of a space object crashing on to the gas giant.

Astronomers have called for help to identify a mystery object that may have hit Saturn on Saturday in what could be the first recorded instance of a space object crashing on to the gas giant.

Fundamentally, this object could tell astronomers more about a population of objects that we don't fully understand, or about the conditions in another solar system.

Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late on July 1, 2025.

Over the next few days, astronomers will pull together evidence to determine whether the object is a comet.

Astronomers may have just discovered a new interstellar object passing through our solar system. The object, a celestial body from another star system, was discovered on Tuesday by the University ...

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Scientists tracking ‘interstellar’ object that has come to us from another solar system Scientists are using telescopes around the world to confirm the findings ...

A couple of years later, astronomers found another object, 2I/Borisov, that was determined to be a rogue comet passing through the Solar System.