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Earlier this year, astronomers were left baffled after a mysterious object flew into view of space telescopes. The alien object was hurtling through our solar system at an astronomical speed of 60 kilometers per second.

NASA soon confirmed the object was not an 'alien invasion', as some rumours suggested. It is in fact an interstellar comet.

Named 3I/ATLAS, the visitor is only the third interstellar object - an astronomical object in the physical space between stars within a galaxy that is not gravitationally bound to a star - ever spotted.

Moving at roughly 210,000 km per hour (130,000 mph), the object is also the fastest comet ever seen, hurtling through space. NASA says this is evidence that the comet has been drifting through interstellar space for billions of

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