There's more than just gravity at work in the solar system
Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...
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Why Comet G3 (ATLAS) will be 'remembered as the Great Comet of 2025' (photos)
G3 (ATLAS) is one of the few comets on record that became bright enough to be visible in the daytime without optical aid like ...
Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
Jan 25: Solving the mysteries of our solar system, and more
Reintroducing Hawaii's sacred crow, how desert ants find their way, pterosaurs paddle-like tails, and how gophers rebuild ...
Bright Comet's Tail Dazzles in 'Bleeding' Images from NASA Spacecraft
Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) came within 8.3 million miles of the sun on January 13 as it reached its perihelion, and is now disintegrating.
Rare Comet Flies Close To Sun In 'Near-Death Encounter'; It Will Return 1,60,000 Years Later
This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary ...
AI Reveals How Asteroids Brought Life’s Building Blocks to Ceres
Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.
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Bright Comet's Tail Dazzles in 'Bleeding' Images from NASA Spacecraft
C/2024 G3 was thought to originate in the Oort cloud, an enormous cloud of rock and ice surrounding our solar system, with the comet taking about 160,000 years to orbit the sun. "This relatively ...
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) comet hurtles through cosmos over Tasmania in extremely rare sight
A comet believed to be in its death throes could briefly be seen over Tasmania this week as it hurtled through the cosmos in ...
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Life’s ingredients have been found in samples from asteroid Bennu
Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.
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Comet C/2024 G3 – These are the best places in the U.S. to view this historic astronomical event
Following the Quadrantids meteor shower, another incredible sky event is about to take place: comet Atlas C/2024 G3 will soon ...
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An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in Space
The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...