Avi Loeb appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast, where interest in the Interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS was revived. The ...
Astronomers observed something incredible in a region that not much was expecting—a planet-scale object drifting alone in space then burst into fiery life in a violent outburst of development. The ...
Interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS that have been captured in planet-forming disks around young stars could become the seeds of giant planets, bypassing a hurdle that theoretical models have ...
Though NASA confirms that 3I/ATLAS poses no immediate threat to Earth, its unusual trajectory and behaviour have stirred ...
When 'Oumuamua traversed our solar system in 2017 it was the first confirmed Interstellar Object (ISO) to do so. Then in 2019, Comet 2l/Borisov did the same thing. These are the only two confirmed ...
More than a year after NASA's New Horizons mission closely flew by a small, distant Kuiper Belt Object, researchers have been able to sift through the data and learn intriguing new details about this ...
The James Webb Space Telescope captured this long-wavelength color composite image of the Orion Nebula using its Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) instrument. NASA, ESA, CSA / Science leads and image ...
The first picture of a planet outside our solar system may actually depict a swirl of space dust, a new study suggests.
It's extremely difficult to think about something so large that it's impossible to properly estimate anything about it. Yet so is the Universe that holds us, a place so big an eternity would probably ...
A near-Earth asteroid is turning heads for a distinct shape that makes it awfully hard to take seriously — even though it’s “potentially hazardous.” As seen in a series of radar images, the rocky ...
The future of the planet may not be the most comfortable of subjects to think about — from the threat of climate change to worry about world wars — but for astronomers, it's something to consider when ...