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Comet 3I/ATLAS, only the third interstellar object ever observed, is making its final pass through our skies, offering a rare ...

The Solar System remains a unique natural laboratory for exploring the processes that govern planetary formation, evolution and dynamics. Contemporary research continues to refine our understanding of ...

At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...

Astronomers are reporting the detection of a large object entering our solar system, and it is causing quite the stir in the scientific community. But now a fourth and much larger object has been ...

The Oort Cloud, an expanse of icy bodies in the far reaches of our solar system, is shown here in a scene from "Encounters in the Milky Way," a show at New York City's Hayden Planetarium that spawned ...

Around a Sun-like star just 1,300 light-years away, a family of planets has been seen in its earliest moments of conception. Astronomers analyzed the infrared flow of dust and detritus left over from ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS. A remarkable ...

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