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On September 11, 2025, astrophysicists at Michigan State University (MSU) revealed potential characteristics of other solar ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb argued interstellar object 3I/ATLAS "could either visit us or release some mini-probes that ...

The earliest images of 3I/ATLAS, newly uncovered by Michigan State University, reveal how the interstellar object evolved as it traveled through our solar system — and how other distant solar systems ...

"Makemake is one of the largest and brightest icy worlds beyond Neptune, and its surface is dominated by frozen methane," said Silvia Protopapa, lead author, in a statement. "The Webb telescope has ...

The committee convened to examine the possibility that China might actually be the first country back to the moon and what ...

The hottest parts of the sun are its solar flares, and a new study suggests these flares could be more than six times hotter ...

In September 2025, scientists announced a surprising discovery: NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission — which collected samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020 — found tiny grains of stardust older than our Sun.

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A comet known as 3I/ATLAS made news when it was confirmed to be the 3rd-ever object observed to have originated outside Earth's solar system. Though the object poses no threat to Earth, astronomers ...