The Pentagon Just Confirmed the First-Ever Interstellar Visitor to Earth
A meteor that crashed into the South Pacific in 2014 was recently confirmed to have origins outside our Solar System.
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A meteor that crashed into the South Pacific in 2014 was recently confirmed to have origins outside our Solar System.
Researchers discovered the first known interstellar meteor to ever hit Earth, according to a recently released United States Space Command document. An interstellar meteor is a space rock that originates from outside our solar system -- a rare occurrence.
In 2017, the world was introduced to Oumuamua which, at the time, was described as the first known interstellar object detected
The US government has confirmed the suspicions of Harvard researchers that an interstellar object has crashed into Earth.
Astronomers have debated for years whether the object could have come from interstellar space—but a defense official has suggested it really did.