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With a diameter of 88,846 miles at its equator, Jupiter is the biggest planet in our solar system. It’s eleven times larger ...
Travel through time to witness some of the most remarkable episodes in our solar system's history, uncovering its ancient ...
U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...
Is it an alien spaceship or an ancient comet? That’s the question puzzling UFO enthusiasts, NASA, and the European Space ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS shines in the sharpest view yet captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, helping astronomers ...
Discovered last month by a telescope in Chile, the comet known as 3I-Atlas is only the third known interstellar object to ...
From the scorching surface of Mercury to the icy edges of Neptune, our planetary neighborhood is full of wonders. The order ...
Harvard astronomer and alien hunter Avi Loeb is still holding onto hope that interstellar object 3I/ATLAS was sent to us by ...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has snapped images of a recently discovered interstellar visitor hurtling through our solar ...
Astronomers found hidden cosmic channels, like tunnels, connecting our solar system to distant stars, reshaping views of ...
Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...
The star is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk, and this disk is the first evidence of debris condensing into what will eventually become planets and other objects. Observing this early phase of ...