Avi Loeb suggested that if 3I/ATLAS is a spacecraft, it may use its proximity to the Sun's powerful gravitational pull while hidden from us.
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Observations with the Hubble space telescope helped cement dark energy and reveal the Hubble tension. How are these two things so ...
An interstellar visitor known as 3I/ATLAS, currently hurtling toward its closest approach to the Sun, has ignited a debate among astronomers (and enthusiasts) over its true nature.
3I/ATLAS is still baffling astronomers as it has strange traits usual for a comet, but there are a few reasons why this may occur.
Billions of years after a star died, it continued influencing its surroundings in space as a white dwarf, even consuming an exoplanet.
The rapidly spinning star beta Canis Minoris is about 162 light-years away from Earth.
China's Chang'e-6 mission, the first sample return mission to the far side of the Moon, discovered extremely rare water-rich minerals.
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) continues to peel back layers of our cosmic viewpoint: its latest discovery reveals that the youth of the universe was sometimes quite the jumbled mess. Astronomers have found that galaxies just a few hundred million ...
Solar power has the disadvantage that there's no Sun at night. Satellite startup Reflect Orbital wants to change that, but at what cost?
NGC 3370 is the featured galaxy on the ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. The galaxy contains Cepheid stars and type Ia supernovae, both of which are standard candle. These objects help astronomers measure distances to faraway galaxies and are critical ...