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"The profile of the occultation was most consistent with it being a new satellite — a new moon — going around Quaoar." ...
Is the future great planetary laboratory hurtling in our direction incognito, veiled in gloom and cold? That’s what ...
Object 3I/ATLAS is now too far from Earth to aim a telescope at, but prior observations showed some unusual behavior. The ...
I/ATLAS is a fast, ancient interstellar object. Its odd features fuel both scientific study and speculation. On July 1, astronomers detected a strange, fast-moving object racing toward the Sun. Named ...
Astronomers simply can't shake the feeling that there's something really off about interstellar object 3I/ATLAS.
The third interstellar object ever observed is in our neighborhood—for now. And, asteroid Bennu could contain dust from ...