The planets orbit a star around 133 light-years away from Earth.

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS dramatically brightened after passing the Sun, with Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb warning it ...

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Scientists have discovered something that they previously thought wasn’t possible – an ‘inside out’ star system. When you line all the planets in our solar system up, the four closest to the sun are ...

Astronomers found no radio signals from the comet that would suggest it is an extraterrestrial spacecraft. 3I/ATLAS was confirmed as the third known object to enter our solar system from interstellar ...

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I do so love an ostentatious comet. As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re frozen solid. But as they near our star on ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope detected material from a Pluto-like body spiraling into a white dwarf star 260 light-years away from Earth. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Tim Pyle illustration For the ...

Discover the latest findings on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, from rare methane detections to high-resolution Hubble images, as it begins its final exit from our solar system.