New Horizons tracks solar wind slowdown as interstellar atoms add drag

A new Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) study based on data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has uncovered insights into ...

What makes a star a star? A strange 'in‑between' celestial object is testing astronomers' boundaries

A star called TOI-2155 lies around 1,350 light-years (839 trillion miles) from Earth. It is a little bigger, heavier and ...
Scientific American

What will happen to Earth’s moon in the far future?

Every time I see the moon in the sky, it makes me happy. Our natural satellite is so familiar it’s easy to take it for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Rare Comet Made History as the Third Known Interstellar Object to Fly Through Our Solar System. Studies Are Now Revealing the Mysterious Conditions in Which I…

In the latest research, telescope observations of 3I/ATLAS examine its chemical structure and suggest that it took shape in a ...