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Two spacecraft will pass right through comet 3I/ATLAS' tail
Two ESA spacecraft, Hera and Europa Clipper, are poised to fly through the long tail of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, a new paper finds.
Strange object between Saturn and Uranus is 'evolving' its own ring system, study suggests
Astronomers have found signs that the small icy world Chiron, orbiting between Saturn and Uranus, may be forming a new ring system in near-real time.
New images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS show giant 'jet' shooting toward the sun
New telescope images show that the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is shooting a giant jet of gas and dust toward the sun. This is normal behavior for comets, an expert told Live Science.
Charred piece of secretive Chinese rocket found still smoldering in the Australian outback
Experts believe that a five-foot-wide piece of space debris discovered near an Australian mining town was part of a dead Chinese rocket. The wreckage likely crashed just before it was found.
Astronomers spot giant hidden 'bridge' and record-breaking tail between 2 dwarf galaxies
Researchers discovered a hidden 185,000 light-year "bridge" of gas between two distant galaxies, which are also trailed by a 1.6 million light-year galactic tail — the largest of its kind ever seen.
Astronomers discover skyscraper-size asteroid hidden in sun's glare
The newly discovered "twilight" asteroid, 2025 SC79, was obscured by the sun's glare until an astronomer pointed the Dark Energy Camera at it, highlighting the potential dangers of unseen asteroids.
James Webb telescope finds that galaxies in the early universe were much more chaotic than we thought
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, finding that galaxies near the dawn of time were much more chaotic than they are today.
Superbright 'Comet Lemmon' gets its tail temporarily torn to pieces by solar wind
An astrophotographer snapped a stunning shot of Comet Lemmon's flowing tail getting shredded by a strong gust of solar wind, just three days before it reaches its closest point to Earth.
