NASA has discovered the third known interstellar object to pass through our solar system, but the icy snowball object poses no threat to Earth.

These things take millions of years to go from one stellar neighborhood to another, so this thing has likely been traveling through space for hundreds of millions of years, even billions of

NASA has discovered a rare interstellar object named 3I/ATLAS—only the third of its kind ever detected. The comet, which comes from beyond our solar system, is currently speeding past Jupiter at 37 miles per second.