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The monstrous 85-mile-wide comet C/2014 UN271 is the second most distant body originating from the Oort Cloud found to be ...
To reach Earth’s closest star system, Alpha Centauri, scientists are building a laser-powered spacecraft. To pull off ...
Can we really reach another solar system? This video explores how humanity might colonize Proxima Centauri B, our closest potentially habitable exoplanet, located in the Alpha Centauri system. We ...
Mercury is the month's highlight, reaching greatest elongation July 4. Also on show in the Southern Hemisphere: Mars, Saturn, ...
But researchers have just demonstrated that once you are far away from the planets of the Solar System, there might be a ...
Laser pushed sails—ultrathin need reflective structures that are square meters but weight a gram. If the sails and the payload each weigh a gram, such a spacecraft could accelerate to one fifth of the ...
Southern astronomers get to see the Milky Way’s core overhead and enjoy many star clusters and nebulae that are hidden for us ...
Stars passing close to the sun could cause planets to collide, including with Earth, or even be ejected as rogue planets, new ...
A new interstellar object has been spotted careening into the solar system at an extremely unusual, hyperbolic trajectory. If ...
Beyond just finding these new small bodies, Rubin Observatory will observe them multiple times using different optical filters, revealing their surface colors. Past solar system surveys were ...
A computer visualization maps small bodies in the solar system that are expected to be observed by the Rubin Observatory during the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time. Red indicates near ...