The interplanetary comet 3I/ATLAS is remarkably rich in a specific type of water that contains deuterium, meaning it came ...
An international team including astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) has announced the discovery of a planet about twice the size of Earth orbiting its star ...
Our solar system may not be as isolated as we once thought. According to a new study, more than 1 million interstellar objects could be lurking in the outer reaches of our cosmic neighborhood, quietly ...
For decades, the four known forces of nature, gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces, have ...
A passing star, or a stellar flyby, with the potential to pull Neptune out of its orbit by just 0.1%, could mean catastrophe for the entire solar system. But don’t worry — it won’t happen in our ...
On July 1, 2025, a telescope in Chile caught a faint smudge drifting across the sky. Within weeks, astronomers confirmed it ...
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Billions of years ago, while the solar system was still young, a massive object may have drifted into it. It's not a spaceship, but it is an alien visitor in its own right—a colossal interstellar body ...
Our solar system is a smashing success. A new study suggests that from its earliest period — even before the last of its nebular gas had been consumed — Earth’s solar system and its planets looked ...