The mysterious interstellar comet 31/ATLAS has sparked worldwide speculation, and theoretical physicist Avi Loeb is once ...

A brand-new group of frozen objects, orbiting the sun out beyond the distant Kuiper Belt, has been spotted by the Subaru telescope, working with NASA's New Horizons mission to find new targets for the ...

As I wrote in a recent “The Universe” column, when these dusty ice balls are billions of kilometers from the sun, they’re ...

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The two stories (here) and (here) are set to be published in the Planetary Science Journal and detail evidence for a cluster of objects just outside of the Kuiper Belt, which is approximately 40 to 50 ...

A vast region of our solar system, called the Kuiper belt, stretches from the orbit of Neptune out to 50 or so astronomical ...

The news about 3I/ATLAS and its appearance and behavior reminds us back here on Earth that there's still a universe of ...

Currently there is a third “interstellar interloper” now passing through the solar system designated as 3i/ATLAS, for the ...

New Horizons exposed Pluto as a surprisingly active world shaped by towering ice mountains, cryovolcanoes that erupt frozen mixtures instead of lava, and a possible hidden ocean sealed beneath a deep ...

You are probably pretty familiar with the name Subaru because of the cars it makes. But as with any Japanese word, there's more to it than meets the eye: it’s used to depict more than just the ...