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Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...
New photos, including a striking technicolor timelapse, show off the newly discovered interstellar object 3I/ATLAS as it ...
The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.
"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...
Astronomers have made an extraordinary discovery at the outer edge of our solar system—a strange space rock that dances in perfect rhythm with Neptune. The object, named 2020 VN40, is part of a group ...
Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS is expected to make its closest pass by the Sun on Oct. 30, when it will fly 130 million miles inside the ...
Using the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have captured the first detailed ...
Using a combination of telescopes, astronomers have characterized the closest supernova linked to a fast X-ray transient. The ...
An international team of astrophysicists using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered a possible ...
The first test images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile showcase thousands of previously unknown asteroids and millions of glittering galaxies.
Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.