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A rare visitor from another star system has been spotted: the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS! It was detected July 1 by the NASA-funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, or ATLAS. Most known ...
Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...
Several planets stand still in the sky, Titan’s shadow transits Saturn, and Venus gives Taurus a second eye in the sky this ...
Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .
We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.
A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star ...
A team of international researchers led by Tomas Stolker in the Netherlands has imaged a young gas giant exoplanet near a 12-million-year-old star. The planet is orbiting a star whose planet formation ...
Scientists are tracking a large gas planet experiencing quite a quandary as it orbits extremely close to a young star - a ...
That means returning from the moon, the Artemis astronauts will be traveling at around 0.0037% the speed of light. Assuming a ...
A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...
Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system ...
Astronomers manning an asteroid warning system caught a glimpse of a large, bright object zipping through the solar system late on July 1, 2025. The objects potentially interstellar origins excited ...