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New research has uncovered compelling evidence that water from a comet is strikingly similar to that found in Earth's oceans, ...
U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...
David Jewitt at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues studied images from ground-based and ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have ...
On the subject of Comet 3I's unnaturalness, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has admitted to having concerns about the discovery in ...
Perseid meteor shower peaks August 12–13 with up to 100 meteors/hour; watch live or catch fireballs before dawn.
The space telescope obtained some details about the third recent interstellar visitor.
The 3I/ATLAS, which was first spotted on July 1, has the fastest velocity of any solar system visitor to date, NASA says. The comet’s 130,000 mph speed is nearly 100 times the speed of some bullets.
The annual Perseids Meteor Shower will peak Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. However, the Waning Gibbous moon will ...
Hubble telescope captures third interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS showing active dust coma racing through solar system.
Your odds of winning the lottery are still 100,000 times larger than the probability of either Voyager hitting a comet.
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed 3I/ATLAS, only the third known object from outside our solar ...