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Experts have confirmed that the mysterious object hurtling towards us, previously dubbed A11pl3Z, is an "interstellar object.
Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb suggests we could use NASA's existing Juno spacecraft to intercept the path of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.
International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...
Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space—and revealed the unstable ...
Learn about cryovolcanism, which shapes the surface of icy moons in the outer Solar System by releasing water that ...
New discoveries of objects in the Kuiper Belt have also presented challenges for the Planet Nine theory. The latest is known ...
Ever since the International Astronomical Union recognized Haumea and Makemake as dwarf planets in 2008, University of Maine ...
"If Earth were to leave the solar system, it's very likely that the vast majority of life as we know it would disappear. Almost all the energy used by Earth's living organisms originates from ...
Astronomers witness first moments of planet formation as rock grains crystallize around distant star HOPS-315.
The solar system, detailed today in a study in Nature, isn’t a completely new find. In fact, the discovery of this system was announced last year by the same researchers. But at the time, they ...
Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...