Interstellar comets like 3I/ATLAS could serve as seeds for giant planet formation, potentially explaining how massive planets form around distant stars, according to BBC and Pfalzner’s research.

For most of its journey 3I/ATLAS has been frozen solid, but the warming rays of our Sun are enough to unfreeze some of its gases such as carbon dioxide, generating a faint cometary tail. For a period ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.

I/ATLAS was recorded by several objects as it made its close pass by the sun this week which resulted in the jarring ...

A trio of meteor showers sends flashes of light across our skies this month, and the first week will feature the largest and ...

The reflectors would orbit Earth in a sun-synchronous orbit, which would cause them to circle Earth from pole to pole, ...

He worked on James Webb Space Telescope, Landsat and TRMM satellites and received various awards during his career ...

“It’s orbit is as expected and it will whizz around the sun ... “In this case the object is anomalous because it comes in the plane of the planets around the sun within 5 degrees and the chance of ...

Social feeds lit up with dusty red rocks, shiny angles and bold captions this week. The story behind them matters more. Claims that NASA’s Perseverance ...

It did not form around the Sun, but came from a distant part of the galaxy ... and 2I/Borisov (2019), each of which adds to ...

Venus, the planet of love and romance ... Fun fact: your Venus sign can never be more than 48° away from your sun sign due to ...

Stargazers using telescopes should be able to see the object in the predawn sky beginning Nov. 11, according to EarthSky.