As a joke, she labelled it LGM 1 for “Little Green Men”, but the astronomers working on it did not really believe they had ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

Stargazers using telescopes should be able to see the object in the predawn sky beginning Nov. 11, according to EarthSky.

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The comet could be older than our solar system. The comet is also distinct because nickel vapor was detected in the gas ...

When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a main guiding principle. “All life on Earth needs liquid water, no matter ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket pierced the Wednesday morning sky as it launched three spacecraft from NASA and NOAA that will study the solar system’s “bubble,” collect information on ...

The comet – named 3I/ ATLAS – was discovered this summer and led to excitement because it appears to be an interstellar comet ...

Stronger links between researchers who work on Earth’s and other planets’ atmospheres, and between the experimental, ...

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS will reach its closest point to the Sun around October 30, 2025. Is the comet 3I/ATLAS a threat ...

Material around Chiron, a small icy world in the far reaches of the solar system, may be taking shape into a ring system of ...

Jupiter was shaping Earth's fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its ...