Observations conducted with the Subaru Telescope and its first-generation wide-field camera, Suprime-Cam, have revealed new ...
The Vera Rubin Observatory has been getting ready to start its revolutionary 10-year-long survey: the Legacy Survey of Space ...
The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was the third object ever discovered in our solar system that originated from another star system. Despite a viral conspiracy theory, NASA officials have repeatedly ...
Every once in a while, the outer solar system reminds us that we've only discovered a negligible portion of it, and that the vast majority is still full of surprises. The latest example of this is a ...
ʻOumuamua was the first confirmed object from another star system to pass through our solar system. Its strange shape, unusual acceleration, and lack of a visible tail left scientists divided. Since ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS's first reported sighting was on July 1, and it's going to be the closest it's ever been to Earth on Friday. Along the way, it reached several milestones leading up to what ...
David Rankin of the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona spends nights scanning the solar system for potentially catastrophic space rocks. Here’s what he has to say about that “high consequence” work, an ...
Officials at Kitt Peak National Observatory have unveiled what they’re calling the first public science center ever built inside a working telescope, but that’s not its only claim to fame. It also ...
Far beyond Neptune, at the outer rim of our Solar System, astronomers have spotted what resembles a hidden “structure” or “band” of small worlds. The Kuiper Belt is a vast ring of icy bodies beyond ...
Our solar system is speeding through space much faster than previously thought, challenging the fundamental assumptions that have long shaped our understanding of the cosmos. That’s according to ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...