Comet 3I/ATLAS was discovered on July 1. “It came from outside our solar system and right now, it's inside the orbit of Jupiter…,” said an official of the NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS).

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.

Astronomers have discovered a rare instance of a interstellar comet speeding through the solar system. The 3I/ATLAS was first spotted on July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System telescope.