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The most striking science photos of the week: including the Perseid meteor shower and glowing underwater wonders.
James Webb Space Telescope discovers 300 mysteriously luminous objects, sparking debate on whether they are galaxies or something else ...
A new scientific paper is drawing attention because it puts forward an unexpected idea about a space object called 3I-ATLAS. Some scientists now question whether this object, which came into our solar ...
Chadderton-born Professor Brian Cox has spoken out about claims that an interstellar object could be an alien spacecraft ...
No one knows where the comet came from. It’s like glimpsing a rifle bullet for a thousandth of a second,” said David Jewitt, ...
Recent claims from Harvard say a comet traveling through our solar system could be a UFO—MSU researchers say they aren't true ...
This week, astronomers have documented the occurrence of an unprecedented stellar death unlike anything seen before.
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS has sparked debate among astronomers since its discovery, and some are exploring whether it ...
U-M astronomers are helping study a fast-moving, ancient, and massive comet that formed beyond our galaxy. A group of ...
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with astronomer David Jewitt about what we can learn from the third interstellar object to have entered our solar system, a comet-like object known as 3I/ATLAS.
“They happen to be very close to each other in the sky right now,” he says. “The closest approach was actually this (Tuesday) ...
On the subject of Comet 3I's unnaturalness, Harvard physicist Avi Loeb has admitted to having concerns about the discovery in ...