Webb Telescope Detects Gas on Distant Dwarf Planet Makemake for the First Time
An SwRI-led team used Webb telescope observations (white) to detect methane gas on the distant dwarf planet Makemake.…
Scientists Find Evidence of Flowing Water on Giant Asteroid
Today, the near-Earth asteroid known as Ryugu is bone dry. But new research suggests that the half-mile space…
Scientists accidentally measure ultrahot ring around black hole using rare ‘double zoom’ technique
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Mysterious Object Headed Into Our Star System Is Now Changing Color
As interstellar object 3I/ATLAS approaches its closest point to the Sun next month, the mysterious visitor continues to…
Is There Actually A Ninth Planet In Our Solar System? Here’s What We Know
On August 24, 2006, our solar system lost a planet. It wasn’t by cataclysmic destruction, but rather by…
Interstellar Comet Grows Tail As It Hurtles Toward Earth
A recently discovered comet is becoming more active as it flies through our solar system toward the sun.…
Asteroid Fragment Reveals a Strange Mineral Never Seen on Earth
The asteroid Ryugu is an echo from the deep, distant past. Two tiny grains of the rock, delivered…
Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS Really Is Bizarre
We already knew that interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was different from the other two interstellar objects known to have…
Astronomers Discover Mysterious New World at Edge of the Solar System
A composite image showing the five dwarf planets recognized by the International Astronomical Union, plus the newly discovered…
Cataclysmic crash with neighboring planet may be the reason there’s life on Earth today, new studies hint
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James Webb telescope images reveal there’s something strange with interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS
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An unprecedented look into a butterfly nebula from the James Webb Telescope
Scientists say the James Webb Space Telescope has captured an unprecedented look inside a butterfly nebula, revealing matter…