Astronomers have confirmed that interstellar objects—cosmic bodies originating from other stars—are passing through our solar system, and now scientists are preparing to go after them. According to a ...
New data from NASA's SPHEREx and the Hubble Space Telescope show that the object known as 3I/ATLAS has changed in ways that contradict scientists' expectations. The mysterious visitor from the far ...
The first few exoplanets were discovered in the early 1990s. But it wasn’t until the early 2000s, when astronomers began carrying out large-scale, long-term surveys of other stars, that we started to ...