NASA has discovered a new interstellar comet that's currently located about 420 million miles away from Earth. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile on Tuesday and confirmed it was a comet from another star system. The new interstellar comet's official name is 3I/ATLAS.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS confirmed as the third from beyond our solar Livestream of 3I/ATLAS hosted by Virtual Telescope Project on July 3 A comet was discovered on July 1 by the ATLAS telescope in Chile,

NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard.The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the sky-surveying Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this week, and confirmed it was a comet from another star system.