When you buy connections to our articles, the future and its union partners can win a commission. Illustration shows a trance object dancing in harmony with Neptune. | Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) Astronomers have found that a strange space rock at the end of the solar system is locked in a rhythmic dance … Read more
“Hearst and Yahoo magazines can earn a commission or revenue from some items through these links.” Here’s what you will learn when you read this story: COMET 31/Atlas is only the third interstellar object ever observed, shrinking through the solar system. While its origin is uncertain, it is believed that the comet comes from a … Read more
Astronomers on Wednesday confirmed the discovery of an interstellar object that competes through our solar system – only the third ever spotted, although scientists suspect that they can sneak in unnoticed much more. The visitor of the stars, marked 3I/Atlas, is probably the largest but still open, and is classified as a comet or space … Read more
When you buy connections to our articles, the future and its union partners can win a commission. Illustration shows the earth surrounded by asteroids – but who is the alien invader?. | Credit: Robert Lea (created by Canva) One million alien visitors from another star system can now be lurred in the solar system. However, … Read more
Alpha Centauri is the star system that is closest to our solar system and it is likely that its particles will make their way or already be in our star neighborhood. To know what to expect, researchers used existing models to predict how many particles of different sizes can already exist in the solar system … Read more