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The blue regions show areas where the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) detected clear signs of water vapor in a distant star system. Credit: ALMA (ESO / NAOJ / NRAO) / S. Facchini ...
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. A remarkable ...
Following the close pass, 2025 FA22 will continue its 668-day looping path through the inner solar system that takes it well ...
Scientists have issued a chilling update on the interstellar object that is currently hurtling through our solar system. The enormous comet, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, was first picked up by a NASA telescope on ...
There may be another world lurking between the orbital lines of our solar system. Astronomers in Japan have published their theory of an “Earth-like planet,” dubbed Planet Nine, that’s hiding in plain ...
Astronomers have discovered a rare in-sync solar system with six planets moving like a grand cosmic orchestra, untouched by outside forces since their birth billions of years ago. The find, announced ...
Visit strange, frozen worlds to discover the bizarre ice that forms beyond Earth. Out in the solar system, ice can get bizarre. Visit strange, frozen worlds – from Uranus’s ultra-hot superionic ice, ...