"The most likely explanation for the dimming is a brown dwarf – an object heavier than a planet but lighter than a star – ...

Comet Wierzchoś, also known as C/2024 E1, is rapidly brightening as it approaches its closest point to Earth next week. But experts predict it will eventually be thrown out of the solar system forever ...

The reversal is thought to be the result of outgassing- when solar heating causes ice on the comet’s surface to sublimate into gas. T ...

In 1.2 million years, the orange dwarf Gleisa 710 will pass through the outer reaches of our solar system, becoming a brilliant point in the night sky while nudging the distant Oort Cloud. Though ...

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Comet 3I/ATLAS is a visitor that will never call the solar system home. Identified on a one-way path that carries it in and ...

As more and more satellite megaconstellations continue to be launched into Earth orbit, some researchers are beginning to ...

Discover the Kuiper Belt: a frozen ring of dwarf planets and trillions of icy bodies, currently being explored by NASA's New Horizons mission.

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday3This dark, moonless Friday the 13th evening is the perfect time ...

Comets usually fade quietly once they swing past the Sun. Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS did not follow the same path. Instead, ...

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope detected organic molecules coming off comet 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar visitor made its closest approach to Earth in December.

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...