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Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
For reference, Pluto’s average distance from the Sun is about 40 AU, so 2023 KQ14 is quite distant. At 23.4 billion miles (37 ...
Typically, telescopes are synonymous with bringing far-off objects close, but the newest member of the solar system was ...
This animation shows the observations of comet 3I/ATLAS when it was discovered on July 1, 2025. The NASA-funded ATLAS survey telescope in Chile first reported that the comet originated from ...
Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...
International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...
The Subaru Telescope has revealed a fourth member of the sednoids, a group of small bodies with peculiar orbits around the ...
A new solar system has been found in the Milky Way. All 6 planets are perfectly in-sync, astronomers say. November 30, 2023 / 3:17 PM EST / CBS/AP ...