Spectroscopy of other stars has led to most discoveries of exocomet systems. In research led by University of Colorado ...

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 ...

The Solar System is more than just planets; it is home to a dazzling variety of moons, each with its own unique charm. Some ...

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

3I/ATLAS is only the third known interstellar visitor, hence the prefix “3I.” The second known interstellar body, Comet 2I/Borisov, was discovered by the Russian astronomer Gennady Borisov in August ...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is glowing brighter and defying all cometary science. Astronomers are baffled by its intense energy and unique chemical signature, suggesting this visitor is not a typical ...

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

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

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

“Like most early Amazon projects, the program needed a code name, and the team began operating as “Project Kuiper”—inspired by the Kuiper Belt, a ring of asteroids in our outer solar system,” the ...

Amazon rebranded its Project Kuiper satellite communications offering to Amazon Leo, in what the company said is a simple nod to the low Earth orbit constellation that powers its network. In a ...