India, July 3 -- Astronomers have confirmed that a rare intersteller object is zooming through the solar system. This is only the third time this has been recorded. Scientists believe many more could pass through unnoticed.

The object has been named 3I/Atlas by the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. It's been labeled a comet and may be the biggest interstellar object found so far, per Sciene alert report.

"The fact that we see some fuzziness suggests that it is mostly ice rather than mostly rock," said Jonathan McDowell, astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

The object was first detected as A11pl3Z, but once confirmed as interstellar, it was renamed. Richard Moissl, who works on planetary d...