Astronomers have identified 3I/ATLAS, an ancient, ice-rich interstellar comet potentially older than our solar system.
Although it's smaller than a planet, Chiron could be a natural laboratory for learning about how ring systems form, change, ...
An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just flew by the sun. Next, the object will fly by Earth in ...
Astronomers using NASA's Swift telescope detected water on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS in a surprising location. Discover how ...
A laser-based ice drill can bore deep, narrow channels into ice while keeping both mass and energy requirements lower than ...
Eugene Shoemaker, the founder of astrogeology, dedicated his life to understanding planetary formation through impacts. His ...
Chiron is a centaur approximately 200 km in diameter and takes about 50 years to complete a full orbit around the Sun.
How do moons form around gas giant planets? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters hopes ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has passed the Sun, revealing nickel vapour and water. Scientists are tracking its exit as it ...
I/ATLAS stunned astronomers by surviving its close encounter with the Sun without flaring, fragmenting, or forming a tail — ...
When evaluating possible planets out of the thousands out there, explained Prof. Bean, scientists look for liquid water as a ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to visit Chhattisgarh on Saturday, November 1, to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for a series of ambitious projects aimed at boosting the state''s ...