Scientists tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and found rotating jets in a rare sun-facing tail during its 2025 pass through ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has turned a routine solar system flyby into a natural physics experiment, with a wobbling jet and a tail that appears to point toward the Sun instead of away from it. As ...
A newly discovered object speeding through our solar system is sparking excitement among astronomers because it’s not from around here. Believed to be a comet, the object is only the third celestial ...
Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping scientists understand Earth's rotation changes over thousands of years. They ...
The solar system originated from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust approximately 4.5 billion years ago, with the Sun forming in the central region through nuclear fusion and the planets condensing ...