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Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave talk about a comet visiting from interstellar space, caterpillars that eat ...
Astronomers recently confirmed that a mysterious object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS came from interstellar space, blowing through the outer solar system at extremely high speeds. It's only the third confirmed ...
A renowned physicist believes he's cracked the mystery of where a giant unidentified object hurtling through our solar system ...
For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...
Astronomers have spotted a new interstellar object — the third of its kind ever seen — shooting towards us through the solar ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
Astronomers tracking an interstellar object flying through the solar system think it comes from a star at least 8 billion ...
Aster G. Taylor is a Ph.D. candidate in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a 2023 Fannie ...
The comet is described as a spinning mass of ice, rock and dust, hurtling through space on a path that thankfully poses no threat to Earth. At its closest point, 3 Eye Atlas will remain approximately ...
The interstellar comet 3I/Atlas is the fastest and largest of its kind, giving astronomers a rare glimpse into extrasolar ...
“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...
What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.