Astronomers have identified 2025 SC79, a new asteroid with a remarkably fast 128-day orbit, placing it among the ...
We all picture the Solar System as a neat cosmic racetrack with planets orbiting the Sun on a flat, organized path. But have ...
More than a thousand years ago, astronomers from the Maya civilization developed one of the most sophisticated time-keeping ...
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As the mystery behind comet 3I/ATLAS, the third interstellar interloper to visit our solar system, continues, there’s a ...
C omet 3I/ATLAS is the third known interstellar object to cross the Solar System, and in a matter of days it will pass the ...
A young sun threatened to gobble up everything that was swirling around it. But then Jupiter started to take shape and grow, and as it did so, it created different zones that caught the material that ...
In an ancient star system expected to be stable and dormant, scientists found a 3 billion-year-old white dwarf star still ...
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The universe has quasi-moons, mini-moon, and moonlets, but no official definition of what counts as a moon.
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