The eyes of every astronomer widened this year when an interstellar traveler was discovered in our solar system.

Ceres, the only dwarf planet in our inner solar system, is covered in ice and salt deposits. Its daytime temperatures range ...

Later, I researched and learned that they were referring to carbonaceous chondrites, which are those meteorites that, when ...

A high-precision time measurement system based on the radioactive decay of manganese-53 was used to determine the precise age ...

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS has shocked astronomers with its bizarre chemistry and unusual “tail.” It contains the highest ...

The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from ...

The greatest challenge facing astrobiologists is that there is only one planet known to us that has life. Of all the bodies ...

In a pair of papers published in 2018 and 2021 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, planetary scientist Steve ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object to pass through our solar system, following the discovery of ...

In the swirling clouds of gas and dust that surround newborn stars, planets begin to form. These planet-forming disks are ...

New images reveal interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS beginning to grow a signature tail as it zooms closer to the sun ahead of a ...