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When Comet 3I/ATLAS roared into the solar system this summer, it launched a scientific scramble to study what astronomers ...

An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just flew by the sun. Next, the object will fly by Earth in December.

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Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...

Webb just spotted a carbon-rich moon factory 625 light-years away, revealing how moons like ours may have first taken shape.

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