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The fastest object in space - Parker Solar Probe - has sent stunning new views of the Sun from its closest distance. The new pictures released by NASA show features in the solar wind and they're ...
Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat ...
The newly discovered comet, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, is coming from the direction of the constellation Sagittarius and was about 420 ...
For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...
The solar system has an uninvited guest that is currently shooting toward us on a one-way trip through our cosmic ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a cosmic first for this decade, astronomers have identified a mysterious comet from another galaxy — ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...
Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...
Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...
The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...
“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...