Scientists who study comets are struggling to keep up with popular speculation that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent ...

The workings of our solar system are roughly the same now as they have been for millions of years. Moons circle their planets, the planets circle the sun, the sun’s magnetic fields and sunspots wax ...

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Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS is accelerating without a comet tail, sparking a fierce debate: Is it a strange natural wonder, ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows that the region surrounding our solar system is far from empty. Instead, it ...

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The comet is on what’s known as a hyperbolic trajectory, which means that it doesn’t follow an orbital path around the sun.

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...