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On Sept. 21-22, a partial solar eclipse will see the moon sweep over the sun's disk, blocking its light over a swathe of the ...
Astronomers say that mysterious interstellar visitors like 'Oumuamua and 3I/ATLAS are the most common large bodies in the ...
I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, ...
There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...
The sun has become more and more active over the last 16 years, in a turn that surprised scientists and could affect space ...
Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...
New observations by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile revealed that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS' tail is ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.
The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...