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Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of ...
Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...
U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...
With a diameter of 88,846 miles at its equator, Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. It’s eleven times larger ...
Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to ...
The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will eventually become planets and other objects. Observing this early phase of ...
The solar system consists of eight planets, several dwarf planets, hundreds of moons, and billions of asteroids, comets and ...
Hubble telescope captures third interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS showing active dust coma racing through solar system.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped images of a recently discovered interstellar visitor hurtling through our solar ...
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 ...
From the scorching surface of Mercury to the icy edges of Neptune, our planetary neighborhood is full of wonders. The order ...