Strange interstellar comet speculated to be alien spacecraft is older than Solar System
A strange interstellar comet discovered last year and speculated by a prominent astronomer to be an alien spacecraft…
Interstellar comet likely far older than Solar System: astronomers
An interstellar comet that blazed past the Sun last year could be nearly three times older than our…
Arizona astronomers use AI to study meteors
“Modern meteor networks capture a wealth of observational information, and we wanted a framework that could fully take…
Saturn’s Icy Moon Is the Perfect Place to Settle, NASA Scientist Argues
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only known satellite in the solar system to feature an atmosphere, which…
Where might we find life in our solar system?
Humans have pondered the question of life beyond our planet for millennia. Only in the past few…
Is Planet Nine Real? New Discovery at the Edge of the Solar System Adds a Twist
The Sun’s gravitational pull extends more than 160 times further into space than Neptune. Credit: Vadim Petrakov The…
Rare Sahara meteorite may be a fragment of a lost planet destroyed at the solar system’s dawn
Scientists have proposed that Northwest Africa 12774, a meteorite recovered from the Sahara Desert, may be debris from…
Jupiter Accelerates Electrons to Near-Light Speed, Offering Clues to Cosmic Ray Origins
The giant planet’s bow shock isn’t just deflecting the solar wind, it’s acting as a powerful particle accelerator,…
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter to form 5-night planet parade. When to look up
If you’re an avid skygazer, you may have noticed two bright objects, Venus and Jupiter, shining in the…
Astronomers detect winds from a black hole reaching 30% of the speed of light
ⓘ NASA – Unsplash An illustration showing two black holes. Recently, astronomers have detected powerful winds in a…
Rare lunar meteorite was smacked three times before finally hitting Earth
A rare type of meteorite discovered in Mali is revealing a multibillion-year tale of lunar catastrophes. With its…
The Solar System May Have Lost 2 Planets, And The Mystery Just Deepened
The Solar System is one of the comforting constants of human existence. No matter what else we have…