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Space Force has confirmed the discovery of the first-known interstellar meteor, which rocketed to Earth off the New Guinean Coast in 2014.

US military confirms first known interstellar meteor to hit our planet

Harvard researchers are 99.999% certain the object was interstellar. But their paper on the finding was being turned down, because the pair only had a private conversation with an anonymous U.S. government employee to confirm the accuracy of the data.

The United States Space Command verified the first interstellar meteor that crash-landed on Earth. It was discovered by top Harvard astronomers Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb.

One researcher called the meteor the "holy grail of interstellar objects."

Researchers discovered the first known interstellar meteor to ever hit Earth, according to a recently relea...

According to the U.S. Space Command, a "unified combatant command" of the U.S. Department...

ANKARA - US Space Command on Wednesday confirmed that scientists discovered the first known interstellar meteor to ever hit the Earth. The meteor, which is known as CNEOS 2014-01-08, crash-landed along the northeast coast of Papua New Guinea on Jan. 8, 2014, CNN quoted a US Space Command document as saying. The finding came as a surprise for Amir Siraj, who identified the object as an interstellar meteor in a 2019 study he co-authored while an undergraduate at Harvard University, the media outle...

An interstellar meteor likely preceded the only other known object to enter Earths solar system from beyond the galaxy.