When a hunk of ice from another star system hurtles through our cosmic neighborhood, astronomers pay attention. When that ...

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Gas giants are truly fascinating. While our solar system has Jupiter and Saturn that are categorized under the umbrella, several gas giants exist outside our neighborhood as well. The largest of them, ...

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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...

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 ...