October 31, 2025
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Astronomers have flagged a visitor that refuses to fit into familiar categories. Detected during wide-field scans, the object curves through space like a comet yet flares in brightness like an asteroid and so far, it’s neither. NASA has confirmed the waning doubt: it does not act like any known comet or asteroid. What they’re seeing is an object writing its own rules no dusty halo, no classic tail, and a subtle extra acceleration that defies standard gravitational modelling.
From the first nights of observation, its behaviour was off-script. Comets typically shed gas and develop nebulous envelopes as they warm; this one stayed sharply defined. Asteroids drift predictably under gravity; this one showed a faint non-gravitational “nudge” with no clear source of thrust. So the team is now tracking, filtering, and modelling with caution and wondering what this thing really is.
