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"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...
Astronomers have discovered a "fossil" world lying in the outskirts of the solar system, according to new research.
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) ...
"It is possible that a planet once existed in the solar system but was later ejected, causing the unusual orbits we see today ...
Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not loop back around the sun. That's why astronomers around the world are using ...
Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...
The deep-space optical communication link could revolutionize how scientists communicate with spacecraft as they explore the ...