Comet 3I/ATLAS arrived from beyond the Solar System carrying a chemical story unlike anything astronomers had measured before. In the gas around it, they found isotope ratios that do not match the ...

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Based on evidence collected by the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have found that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS could be up to 12 billion years old!

Space is vast, and filled with weird and wonderful things, including amazing facts about it. Some of the bizarre inhabitants and phenomena of our Universe are more astounding than even the most ...

Last year, an interstellar traveler entered our solar system. Some speculated that it was an alien spacecraft, but it turned ...

Astronomers have revealed new details about the makeup and age of a visiting comet that was born around a distant star. They ...

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What is the actual speed and direction of our solar system as it moves through the cosmos, and how does this compare to longstanding cosmology models? This is what a recent study published in Physical ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest ...