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There are quite a few other places we might find life in the solar system, including dwarf planets like Ceres. Ceres is ...
NASA's IMAP mission will give Earthlings a sort of early warning system when solar weather may affect satellites and global ...
I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...
The anomalous nature of the object led astrophysicist Avi Loeb to apply a thought experiment to it, highlighting everything ...
The Voyager spacecraft, on a decades-long journey of exploration, have made an unusual discovery at the edge of our solar system. They’ve detected a layer of hot plasma at the solar system’s boundary, ...
There's some bizarre action going on with 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar object which some have claimed could be an 'alien threat ...
Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an ...
Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...
Federal funding is about to run out for 19 active space missions studying Earth's climate, exploring the Solar System, and probing mysteries of the Universe.
A new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, has been found with a vast orbit and potential dwarf planet size. The finding hints ...
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.
Tom Zega, a University of Arizona scientist who's worked on samples brought back from the asteroid Bennu, tells The Show more ...