Astronomers said on Wednesday that they had observed the moment when planets start forming around a distant star for the ...
Long before modern observatories and spacecraft, court scribes in ancient China were quietly building one of humanity’s first datasets on the changing sky. Their terse notes on sudden daylight ...
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Scientists have been cataloging comet 3I/ATLAS’s journey through the Solar System since July, tracking major milestones as ...
For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star — blitzing into our solar system. First named A11pl3Z and now designated as ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) The interstellar comet, originally called A11pl3Z and now ...
3I/ATLAS has now made its closest approach to the sun and Earth and is now heading back out toward the outer solar system. On ...
Years ago, astronomers believed they had found a planet forming around a nearby star called Fomalhaut. This was very exciting ...