NASA has just confirmed that 3I/ATLAS has shifted its course in a way that can't be explained by the natural forces of the ...

On October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS reached its closest point to the Sun. This point, known as perihelion, was around 210 million ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Researchers rarely get a glimpse of an interstellar object up close like 3I-ATLAS, so they have jumped on the opportunity to learn about its composition, which can reveal how planet systems are made.

The early growth of the gas giant carved rings that formed primitive meteorites and shaped the architecture of the inner ...

New research reveals how powerful coronal mass ejections may have been essential to the rise of life on planet Earth.

It was early January 2025 when a faint light spot was observed at the Mt. Lemmon Observatory in Arizona. Follow-up observations revealed that the object was a comet visiting from the outer edge of the ...

The first time Chris Dahl heard rumblings of a plan to build a large solar array among the corn fields and tobacco sheds of East Windsor, she said the project sounded like a good enough idea. A ...

What a coincidence! The mysterious interstellar object known as 3I/ATLAS has been streaking through the Solar System at exactly the same moment as the U.S. government has shut down. This means that ...

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A mysterious interstellar comet — just the third such object ever confirmed to have entered our solar system — streaked past Mars last week. A spacecraft in orbit around the red planet had a front-row ...

About 4.6 billion years ago, the Solar System formed from a cloud of dust and gas collapsing in on itself due to gravity. The Sun, planets, and eventually Earth formed out of the cloud. But when did ...