Astronomers from Cardiff University, UK, have employed the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-wave Astronomy (CARMA) ...

Comet 3I/ATLAS is a rare visitor passing briefly through our solar system. Here’s how to find it in the night sky—and what you’ll need to catch a glimpse.

New measurements of radio galaxies reveal that the solar system is racing through the universe at over three times the speed predicted by standard cosmology. Using highly sensitive data from multiple ...

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Ernest Opik, an Estonian astronomer based at the Astronomical Observatory in Tartu from 1921-1944, commenced research on the frequencies and speeds of meteors and comets in the 1920s. In 1932, Opik ...

The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a recent study suggests a potential new candidate, which the paper’s authors have dubbed ...

3I/ATLAS likely weighs more than 33 billion tons. The interstellar object hurtling toward the inner solar system, where Earth is located, is much larger than previously thought, astronomers say. A ...

Astronomers have uncovered a massive new trans-Neptunian object, 2017 OF201, lurking at the edge of our solar system. With an orbit stretching 25,000 years and a size that may qualify it as a dwarf ...

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An unusual comet that astronomers thought had disintegrated actually survived its close pass by the Sun in 2022 1. The comet in question, C/2021 O3, was spotted in July 2021 on its way from the Oort ...

Scientists were able to see the moment when planets began to form around a star. Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a solar system beyond our own for the first time. An international team of ...

Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's not aliens.) The interstellar comet, originally called A11pl3Z and now ...